Compute Element and Interface Box for the Hazard Detection System

• Published in: NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI). Tech Briefs
• Main Authors: Villalpando, Carlos Y, Khanoyan, Garen, Spaulding, Matthew D, Luna, Michael E, Motaghedi, Shui H, Trawny, Nikolas, Johnson, Andrew E, Ivanov, Tonislav I, Huertas, Andres, Whitaker, William D, Goldberg, Steven B, Stern, Ryan A, Some, Raphael R, Bailey, Erik S, Carson, John M, Vaughan, Geoffrey M, Werner, Robert A, Salomon, Phil M, Martin, Keith E
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hampton NASA/Langley Research Center 01.04.2013
• Subjects: Control equipment; Data management; Field programmable gate arrays; Landing sites; Microprocessors; Sensor arrays

The Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) program is building a sensor that enables a spacecraft to evaluate autonomously a potential landing area to generate a list of hazardous and safe landing sites. It will also provide navigation inputs relative to those safe sites. The Haz...