Evolving Asteroid Starships: A bio-inspired approach for interstellar space systems

The hostile and unpredictable environment of deep space requires a new conceptual approach for interstellar flight, one that differs radically from any current design in aerospace. A design solution is proposed in which the starship is attached to a C-type asteroid and whose architecture evolves over time. The starship gradually mines...

Robust marker-tracking system for vision-based autonomous landing of VTOL UAVs

This article presents the development of a visionbased VTOL UAV docking system for outdoor applications. A new marker type is constructed, along with a robust detection algorithm based on the Hough transform, which forms the basis of the positioning system. For verification purposes, a binary classifier based on support vector machines is...