Introduction NASA's and JPL's future missions of deep space exploration face the challenge of designing, building, and operating progressively more capable autonomous spacecraft and planetary rovers. Given the latencies of spacecraft-Earth communication for such missions, the need for enhanced autonomy becomes obvious. Earthbased mission controllers will be unable to directly control distant sp...

This work proposes a new approach to determine the spatial location and orientation of an object using measurements performed on the object itself. The on-board triangulation algorithm we outline could be implemented in lieu of, or in addition to, well-known alternatives such as Global Positioning System (GPS) or standard triangulation, since both of these correspond to significantly different ...