Digital twin simulations play an integral role in the design, validation and implementation of a plethora of systems in any industry - including aerospace. EagleCam 2 presents a great technical challe..
Digital twin simulations play an integral role in the design, validation and implementation of a plethora of systems in any industry - including aerospace. EagleCam 2 presents a great technical challenge, where we need to evaluate how our systems will do data acquisition best - image capturing in particular. In order to assist with the design and validation of our systems, a digital twin that emulates the Lunar environment as we expect it to be during the lifecycle of the mission is a crucial component. Such digital twin system allows us to simulate all the parameters that are considered variable during our mission - orientation, lighting conditions, camera parameters, stage of flight etc. A specific technical challenge presents itself when trying to emulate the Lunar terrain in high resolution, realistically - we need to take into account both the tremendous amounts of data we need to aggregate in order to render the Lunar terrain, as well as the inherent distortion that fisheye lenses add to the image, while also including the manufacturing imperfections of the lenses themselves, provided by the datasheet of the manufacturer and then compared with their real-world counterparts.
