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Global Optimization Approaches for Optimal Trajectory Planning
Optimal trajectory design for interplanetary space missions is an extremely hard problem, mostly because of the very large number of local minimizers that real problems present. Despite the challenges of the t...
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Tragopogon dubius, Considerations on a Possible Biomimetic Transfer
Tragopogon dubious is a small herbaceous plant that uses the wind as dispersal vector for its seeds. The seeds are attached to stalked parachutes which increase the aerodynamic drag force on the ...
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The Generalized Island Model
The island model paradigm allows to efficiently distribute genetic algorithms overmultiple processors while introducing a new genetic operator, themigration operator, able to improve the overall algortihmic pe...
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ALife in the Galapagos: Migration Effects on Neuro-Controller Design
The parallelization of evolutionary computation tasks using a coarse-grained approach can be efficiently achieved using the island migration model. Strongly influenced by the theory of punctuated equilibria, s...
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Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites
We present a distributed control strategy that lets a swarm of satellites autonomously form a lattice in orbit around a planet. The system, based on the artificial potential field approach, proposes a novel wa...
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Robust and Automated Space System Design
Over the past few years, much research has been dedicated to the creation of decisions support systems for space system engineers or even for completely automated design methods capturing the reasoning of syst...
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Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications
The ambitious short-term and long-term goals set down by the various national space agencies call for radical advances in several of the main space engineering areas, the design of intelligent space agents cer...
