Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardware

ArXi:2604.04117v1 Announce Type: cross Reliable relative pose estimation is a key enabler for autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations, yet space imagery is notoriously challenging due to extreme illumination, high contrast, and fast target motion. Event cameras provide asynchronous, change-driven measurements that can remain informative when frame-based imagery saturates or blurs, while neuromorphic processors can exploit sparse activations for low-latency, energy-efficient inferences.