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Research on landing navigation technology for exploration missions in extreme environment by neuromorphic approaches

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K04854
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 24010:Aerospace engineering-related
Research InstitutionJapan Aerospace EXploration Agency

Principal Investigator

FUKUDA Seisuke  国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構, 宇宙科学研究所, 教授 (50332151)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywordsニューロモーフィック / スパイキングニューラルネットワーク / 太陽系探査 / 月着陸 / 画像航法 / イベントカメラ / 着陸
Outline of Research at the Start

急峻な斜面への着陸や土星圏等の低エネルギーな対象天体への到達など、有人探査が困難で無人機が本質的に活躍する「極限探査」の自在な実現のために、生物的な機能を再現あるいは模倣する「ニューロモーフィック(neuromorphic)」なセンサやプロセッサを探査機の航法技術に導入し、画像処理等のアプリケーションを実装して、高速応答性や低消費電力などの観点で従来技術とは不連続かつ革新的なメリットが得られることを実証する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, in order to realize flexible unmanned exploration missions in extreme environment where manned activities are essentially difficult, neuromorphic processing (e.g., spiking neural networks) that imitates the behavior of the brain nerves of living organisms and neuromorphic sensors that imitates the optic nerves, which are for example event-based cameras that can output the change of the target brightness asynchronously, were successfully introduced into the landing navigation on the spacecraft. The experimental results show that the neuromorphic approach can provide discontinuous and innovative merits in terms of latency and low power consumption.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

生物学的なコミュニティにより研究が進められてきたニューロモーフィックな技術を、宇宙探査機のオンボード処理に成功裏に適用した本研究成果は、未踏領域への極限探査を可能にし、人類のフロンティアを開拓することに貢献するという学術的意義のみならず、低リソース動作という観点でニューロモーフィック技術と本質的に親和性のあるアプリケーションを拡大し、IoT分野などの低消費電力での動作が必要となる民生技術/社会インフラへの波及を促進するという点で、社会的な意義も極めて高い。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Initial Study of Neuromorphic Application for Vision-based Navigation2020

    • Author(s)
      K. Kariya and S. Fukuda
    • Journal Title

      Aerospace Technology Japan

      Volume: -

    • NAID

      130007840118

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Real-time hazard detection for planetary landing using spiking neural networks2022

    • Author(s)
      H. Kinoshita, S. Kimura, and S. Fukuda
    • Organizer
      33rd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Neuromorphic computing for spacecraft’s terrain relative navigation: A case of event-based crater classification task2021

    • Author(s)
      K. Kariya and S. Fukuda
    • Organizer
      2021 IEEE Space Computing Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] スパイキングニューラルネットワークの時空間符号化性能の向上と宇宙機の着陸における障害物検知への適用2021

    • Author(s)
      木下英明,木村真一,福田盛介
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会 ニューロコンピューティング研究会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Neuromorphic computing for spacecraft’s terrain relative navigation: A case of event-based crater classification task2021

    • Author(s)
      K. Kariya and S. Fukuda
    • Organizer
      The 8th Annual Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) workshop
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ニューロモーフィックコンピューティングによる宇宙機の地形相対航法におけるクレータ検出の検討2020

    • Author(s)
      木下英明,木村真一,福田盛介
    • Organizer
      第64回宇宙科学技術連合講演会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] クレータ分類を例としたニューロモ―フィックコンピューティングの宇宙機航法に対する適用2020

    • Author(s)
      狩谷 和季, 福田 盛介
    • Organizer
      電子情報通信学会ニューロコンピューティング研究会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Study of Neuromorphic Application Using Spiking Neural Network for Terrain Relative Navigation2019

    • Author(s)
      K. Kariya and S. Fukuda
    • Organizer
      16th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-2019)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Module Study of Neuromorphic Application for Vision-Based Navigation2019

    • Author(s)
      K. Kariya and S. Fukuda
    • Organizer
      32th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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