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Main Authors: Evangelisti, Francesco, Rossi, Francesco, Giani, Tobia, Bloise, Ilaria, Varile, Mattia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12679
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author Evangelisti, Francesco
Rossi, Francesco
Giani, Tobia
Bloise, Ilaria
Varile, Mattia
author_facet Evangelisti, Francesco
Rossi, Francesco
Giani, Tobia
Bloise, Ilaria
Varile, Mattia
contents Accurate satellite pose estimation is crucial for autonomous guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems in in-orbit servicing (IOS) missions. This paper explores the impact of different tasks within a multi-task learning (MTL) framework for satellite pose estimation using monocular images. By integrating tasks such as direct pose estimation, keypoint prediction, object localization, and segmentation into a single network, the study aims to evaluate the reciprocal influence between tasks by testing different multi-task configurations thanks to the modularity of the convolutional neural network (CNN) used in this work. The trends of mutual bias between the analyzed tasks are found by employing different weighting strategies to further test the robustness of the findings. A synthetic dataset was developed to train and test the MTL network. Results indicate that direct pose estimation and heatmap-based pose estimation positively influence each other in general, while both the bounding box and segmentation tasks do not provide significant contributions and tend to degrade the overall estimation accuracy.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Multi-Task Learning for Accurate Spacecraft Pose Estimation
Evangelisti, Francesco
Rossi, Francesco
Giani, Tobia
Bloise, Ilaria
Varile, Mattia
Machine Learning
Accurate satellite pose estimation is crucial for autonomous guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems in in-orbit servicing (IOS) missions. This paper explores the impact of different tasks within a multi-task learning (MTL) framework for satellite pose estimation using monocular images. By integrating tasks such as direct pose estimation, keypoint prediction, object localization, and segmentation into a single network, the study aims to evaluate the reciprocal influence between tasks by testing different multi-task configurations thanks to the modularity of the convolutional neural network (CNN) used in this work. The trends of mutual bias between the analyzed tasks are found by employing different weighting strategies to further test the robustness of the findings. A synthetic dataset was developed to train and test the MTL network. Results indicate that direct pose estimation and heatmap-based pose estimation positively influence each other in general, while both the bounding box and segmentation tasks do not provide significant contributions and tend to degrade the overall estimation accuracy.
title Optimizing Multi-Task Learning for Accurate Spacecraft Pose Estimation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12679