This R&D success at Airbus Defence & Space is the culmination of many years of collaboration with two members of the RAINBOW team (formerly Lagadic): Éric Marchand (Professor at the University of Rennes 1) and François Chaumette (Research Director at Inria Rennes).
To see the guidance of autonomous aerial vehicles become a reality, our researchers specializing in the localization of 3D objects and their visual tracking in real time, have used a technology resulting from research started about ten years ago with Antoine Petit as part of his thesis on applications to autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations in space.
This collaboration with Keyvan Kanani - a computer vision engineer in the space branch of Airbus Defence & Space - has enabled the potential of this technology to be explored...
To learn more, read the article from Émergences (french)