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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 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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Machine Learning and Evolutionary Techniques in Interplanetary Trajectory Design
After providing a brief historical overview on the synergies between artificial intelligence research, in the areas of evolutionary computations and machine learning, and the optimal design of interplanetary t...
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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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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...
