Nature benefits from a progressive evolution over millions of years, always adapting and
finding individual solutions for common problems. Hence, a pool of diverse and efficient …

The Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX) is intended as the first on-orbit
demonstration of autonomous distributed angles-only navigation for spacecraft swarms …

Computer vision tasks are crucial for aerospace missions as they help spacecraft to
understand and interpret the space environment, such as estimating position and …

This paper develops a novel algorithmic framework for autonomous asteroid
characterization for the Autonomous Nanosatellite Swarming (ANS) mission concept. There …

This paper addresses the development and verification of an estimation architecture for
autonomous relative navigation in multi-satellite systems using angles-only measurements …

Spacecraft swarms can achieve mission objectives otherwise impossible by monolithic
satellites. To this end, swarms need to autonomously reconfigure their relative motion while …

This article first defines a class of estimation problem called simultaneous navigation and
characterization (SNAC), which is a superset of simultaneous localization and mapping …

This article introduces two new algorithms to accurately estimate the process noise
covariance of a discrete-time Kalman filter online for robust orbit determination in the …

This paper presents an integrated model-learning predictive control scheme for spacecraft
orbit-attitude station-keeping in the vicinity of asteroids. The orbiting probe relies on optical …

This paper presents a novel methodology to control spacecraft swarms about single
asteroids. This approach enables the use of small, autonomous swarm spacecraft in …