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Open AccessThe OPS-SAT case: A data-centric competition for onboard satellite image classification
While novel artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are evolving and disrupting established terrestrial technologies at an unprecedented speed, their adaptation onboard satellites is seemingly ...
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Open AccessGeodesy of irregular small bodies via neural density fields
Asteroids’ and comets’ geodesy is a challenging yet important task for planetary science and spacecraft operations, such as ESA’s Hera mission tasked to look at the aftermath of the recent NASA DART spacecraft...
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Open AccessSpacecraft collision avoidance challenge: Design and results of a machine learning competition
Spacecraft collision avoidance procedures have become an essential part of satellite operations. Complex and constantly updated estimates of the collision risk between orbiting objects inform various operators...
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Message from the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Engineering
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Learning the optimal state-feedback via supervised imitation learning
Imitation learning is a control design paradigm that seeks to learn a control policy reproducing demonstrations from expert agents. By substituting expert demonstrations for optimal behaviours, the same paradi...
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Super-resolution of PROBA-V images using convolutional neural networks
European Space Aqency (ESA)’s PROBA-V Earth observation (EO) satellite enables us to monitor our planet at a large scale to study the interaction between vegetation and climate, and provides guidance for impor...
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A survey on artificial intelligence trends in spacecraft guidance dynamics and control
The rapid developments of artificial intelligence in the last decade are influencing aerospace engineering to a great extent and research in this context is proliferating. We share our observations on the rece...
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Target selection for a small low-thrust mission to near-Earth asteroids
The preliminary mission design of spacecraft missions to asteroids often involves, in the early phases, the selection of candidate target asteroids. The final result of such an analysis is a list of asteroids,...
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Revisiting Lambert’s problem
The orbital boundary value problem, also known as Lambert problem, is revisited. Building upon Lancaster and Blanchard approach, new relations are revealed and a new variable representing all problem classes, ...
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An evolutionary robotics approach for the distributed control of satellite formations
We propose and study a decentralized formation flying control architecture based on the evolutionary robotic technique. We develop our control architecture for the MIT SPHERES robotic platform on board the I...
