DESIGN AND GROUND TEST RESULTS FOR THE LANDER VISION SYSTEM

The Lander Vision System (LVS) is a tightly integrated bolt-on smart sensor system that provides real-time terrain relative position, velocity, attitude and altitude while also detecting landing hazards. The LVS can increase access to scientifically rich landing sites and is a low mass, volume and cost alternative to radar-based landing sensors. The LVS hardware fuses measurements from a visible camera, flash lidar and inertial measurement unit using a terrain relative navigation filter operating on a high performance compute element. This paper describes the design of an LVS prototype created from commercial components with a path to flight implementation and describes initial terrain relative navigation results produced on the computing hardware.