Intrinsic synergy between optical navigation and advanced image processing techniques is reshaping aerospace, robotics and industrial applications. By integrating sensor data and sophisticated ...

Illustration of a Vanguard-equipped satellite receiving instructions from the ground, autonomously calculating a rendezvous trajectory to a resident space object and entering harmonic orbits to ...

As astronauts and rovers explore uncharted worlds, finding new ways of navigating these bodies is essential in the absence of traditional navigation systems like GPS. Optical navigation relying on ...

MESSENGER mission operators at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., have received the first eight optical navigation images from the spacecraft. “We’re going ...

Optical Finger Navigation (OFN) products from Avago Technologies offer a compact, precise, fast speed and highly reliable navigation solution, which will help enhance the overall system performance.

Over the past two decades or so navigation systems have become indispensable to our way of life. No matter where you live in this world, chances are every time you get inside your car you turn on your ...