| PROPOSAL NUMBER: | 03-F5.01-7396 (For NASA Use Only - Chron: 035611) |
| SUBTOPIC TITLE: | Automated Rendezvous and Docking and Capture |
| PROPOSAL TITLE: | High Resolution, Range/Range-Rate Imager |
SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
(Firm Name, Mail Address, City/State/Zip, Phone)
Visidyne, Inc.
10 Corporate Place, South Bedford St.
Burlington ,MA 01803 - 5168
(781) 273 - 2820
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/PROJECT MANAGER
(Name, E-mail, Mail Address, City/State/Zip, Phone)
Geert Wyntjes
wyntjes@visidyne.com
10 Corporate Place, South Bedford St.
Burlington ,MA 01803 -5168
(781) 273 - 2820
U.S. Citizen or Legal Resident: Yes
TECHNICAL ABSTRACT (LIMIT 200 WORDS)
Visidyne proposes to develop a design for a small, lightweight, high resolution, in x, y, and z Doppler imager to assist in the guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) of satellites as for a chaser-target vehicle type scenario. It could therefore be used for rendezvous, circumnavigation, inspection and docking.
Key elements for the design are Visidyne?s patented imaging LADAR or monocular 3-D camera design and an innovative, CCD chip extracted from MIT/Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). A novel feature is the ability to cancel, null any gross relative motions between vehicles, thereby greatly improving on the achievable attitude, pose precision.
POTENTIAL NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS (LIMIT 150 WORDS)
The proposed imager, if successful, would substantially benefit in the field of robotics autonomous navigation, helicopter obstacle avoidance and for tracking, orientation using, multiple reference points.
POTENTIAL NON-NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS (LIMIT 150 WORDS)
Optical, 3-D, Navigation, Doppler, Docking