As space debris has become a cause of concern for space operations around Earth, active
debris removal and satellite servicing missions have gained increasing attention. Within this …

The dynamics of a CubeSat orbiting a binary asteroid system can be quite complex due to
the irregular gravitational fields of the two bodies and the significant effect of the Solar …

This paper presents a sampling-based receding-horizon inspection algorithm that allows
observation of a tumbling target vehicle while guaranteeing an arbitrary low risk of collision …

Future spacecraft in zero-gravity proximity operations are expected to host autonomous
planning and control capabilities. Available path planning approaches have high …

Abstract Space missions to visit small bodies of the Solar System are important steps to
improve our knowledge of the Solar System. Usually those bodies do not have well known …

OVER the past few decades, space debris has become a persistent and a growing issue for
space operations around the Earth. As emphasized in [1], in average, four to five breakups …

Abstract Sampling Based Motion Planning (SBMP) techniques are widely used in robotics to
plan feasible trajectories of a vehicle/robot evolving in a complex and constrained …

This paper presents a computationally fast method for solving gravitational accelerations
near irregularly-shaped asteroids. This method is based on analytical three-dimensional …

The main goal of this paper is to search for orbits that can be used in the Brazilian proposed
Aster mission. This mission is under study and its objective is to use a spacecraft to observe …

Spacecraft missions to small celestial bodies face sensitive, strongly non-Keplerian
dynamics that motivate the employment of automated sampling-based trajectory planning …