Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking

arXiv:2606.27566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic operations in space are challenging due to the harsh environment and the high cost of failure. Fiducial markers provide visual references that aid autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking for space robots. However, existing fiducial markers are mostly single-scale and largely designed for terrestrial robotics. Such markers leave the camera's field of view at close range, precisely during the proximity and docking phases wher...