STEPS2 project
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- March 1, 2013
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Systems and technologies for space exploration.
STEPS is a Piemonte regional research project, it is the acronym of Sistemi e Tecnologie per l’EsPlorazione Spaziale (Systems and TEchnologies for Space Exploration).
STEPS is a joint development of Technologies for Space Exploration by 3 large Industries, 27 SMEs, 3 Universities, and one public Research Centre. It is coordinated by Thales Alenia Space Italia, Torino Business Units (Space Infrastructures & Transportation, and Optical Observation and Science), in the framework of robotic and human Space Exploration. STEPS develops virtual and hardware demonstrators for a range of technologies for the descent, soft landing, and surface mobility of both robotic and manned equipment on Moon and Mars. It also foresees the development of Teleoperations labs, Concurrent Engineering and Virtual Reality environments, and physical simulations of Moon and Mars surface conditions and ground. Two key hardware demonstrators (Lander and Rover demonstrators) fit in a context of international cooperation for the exploration of Moon and Mars, as envisaged by leading Space Agencies worldwide.
STEPS is divided into 14 Work Packages and Thales Alenia Space is the project leader.
Politecnico di Torino, University of Turin, and several small and medium companies are involved in such a project. TestGroup is involved in this project with a collaboration with Thales Alenia for the development of efficient image processing hardware on FPGA platforms to support the navigation control systems.
If you find this project interesting check out also the other projects of our team
Project’s details:
- Duration: 2013-2015
- Coordinator: Thales Alenia
- Funded by: Regione Piemonte.
Related readings:
From STEPS to STEPS 2: Technologies Development for Space Exploration in the PAD
Related publications:
- Di Carlo S.; Prinetto P.; Rolfo D.; Trotta P. AIDI: An adaptive image denoising FPGA-based IP-core for real-time applications in NASA/ESA Conference On Adaptive Hardware And Systems (AHS) 2013, pp.99-106, ISBN: 9781467363839, DOI: 10.1109/AHS.2013.6604232
- Di Carlo S.; Gambardella G.; Lanza P.; Prinetto P.; Rolfo D.; Trotta P. SAFE: a Self Adaptive Frame Enhancer FPGA-based IP-core for real-time space applications in Proceedings Of IEEE 8th International Design And Test Symposium (IDT), pp.1-6, DOI: 10.1109/IDT.2013.6727127
- Walter Allasia; Paolo Ariano; Alain Favetto; Francesco Gallo; Enrico Licata; Marco Paleari; Paolo Prinetto; Daniele Rolfo; Francesco Rosso; Pascal Trotta Stereo vision system for capture and removal of space debris in IEEE Conference On Design And Architectures For Signal And Image Processing (DASIP) 2013, pp.201-207
- Lanza P.; Martelli A.; Prinetto P.; Rolfo D.; Tramutola A.; Trotta P. FPGA-based IP-cores library for advanced image processing in space applications in Proceedings Of The DASIA 2013 – DAta Systems In Aerospace – Conference
- Di Carlo S.; Gambardella G.; Prinetto P.; Rolfo D.; Trotta P.; Lanza L. FEMIP: A high performance FPGA-based features extractor & matcher for space applications in 23rd International Conference On Field Programmable Logic And Applications (FPL) 2013, pp.1-4, ISBN: 9781479900046, DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2013.6645606
- Lanza P.; Martelli A.; Prinetto P.; Rolfo D.; Tramutola A.; Trotta P. Advanced image processing in space applications: the new trend to increase the success rate of exploration space missions in Proceedings Of 5th European Conference For Aeronautics And Space Sciences (EUCASS 2013)
- Di Carlo, S.; Prinetto, P.; Rolfo, D.; Sansonne, N.; Trotta, P. A novel algorithm and hardware architecture for fast video-based shape reconstruction of space debris EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING, Vol.2014:147, pp.1-19, ISSN: 1687-6180, DOI: 10.1186/1687-6180-2014-147