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Babak Salamat and Gerhard Elsbacher
Steering large-scale particle or robot systems is challenging because of their high dimensionality. We use a centralized stochastic approach that allows for optimal control at the cost of a central element instead of a decentralized approach. Previous wo...
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Peiran Li, Xin Wen, Mohong Zheng, Haiying Liu, Dizhi Long and Yuping Lu
The attitude tracking synchronization control of an orbit-predetermined leader?follower spacecraft swarm for the space moving target is discussed in this paper. The information exchange between all spacecraft is assumed to be discrete in time and on the ...
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Ludvig Knöös Franzén, Ingo Staack, Petter Krus, Christopher Jouannet and Kristian Amadori
Aerospace systems are connected with the operational environment and other systems in general. The focus in aerospace product development is consequently shifting from a singular system perspective to a System-of-Systems (SoS) perspective. This increasin...
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Gianluigi Bovesecchi, Sandra Corasaniti, Girolamo Costanza, Fabrizio Paolo Piferi and Maria Elisa Tata
Space vehicles may be propelled by solar sails exploiting the radiation pressure coming from the sun and applied on their surfaces. This work deals with the adoption of Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) elements in the sail deployment mechanism ac...
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Gianluigi Bovesecchi, Sandra Corasaniti, Girolamo Costanza and Maria Elisa Tata
This work deals with the feasibility and reliability about the use of shape memory alloys (SMAs) as mechanical actuators for solar sail self-deployment instead of heavy and bulky mechanical booms. Solar sails exploit radiation pressure a as propulsion sy...
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Johney Thomas, Antonio Davis and Mathews P. Samuel
Safety is of paramount concern in aerospace and aviation. Safety has evolved over the years, from the technical era to the human-factors era and organizational era, and finally to the present era of systems-thinking. Building upon three foundational conc...
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Raúl de Celis, Pablo Solano and Luis Cadarso
The Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) of air and space vehicles has been one of the spearheads of research in the aerospace field in recent times. Using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and inertial navigation systems, accuracy may be deta...
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Javaan Chahl
The aerospace community is planning for growth in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) funding and research opportunities. The premise that UAS will revolutionize aerospace appears to be unfolding based on current trends. There is also an anticipation of an inc...
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Glauco Nobrega, Beatriz Cardoso, Reinaldo Souza, José Pereira, Pedro Pontes, Susana O. Catarino, Diana Pinho, Rui Lima and Ana Moita
The issue of thermal control for space missions has been critical since the early space missions in the late 1950s. The demands in such environments are heightened, characterized by significant temperature variations and the need to manage substantial de...
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Saba Al-Rubaye, Antonios Tsourdos and Kamesh Namuduri
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector in aviation aiming to offer secure, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. These vehicles are designed for short-haul flights, transpo...
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Jia Ou, Tingfa Xu, Xiaochuan Gan, Xuejun He, Yan Li, Jiansu Qu and Wei Zhang
Photogrammetry as an engineering measurement technology for the rapid and non-contact acquisition of geometric parameters, such as the attitude, position, and shape of a measured object, is widely used in the development and production processes of the a...
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Eugenio Brusa, Alberto Dagna, Cristiana Delprete and Rocco Gentile
In recent years, the methodology of Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) has become relevant to the design of complex products, especially when safety critical systems need to be addressed. It allows, in fact, the deployment of product development direc...
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Stephen L. Dorton, LeeAnn R. Maryeski, Robert P. Costello and Blake R. Abrecht
The prevalence of unique, disparate satellite command and control (SATC2) systems in current satellite operations is problematic. As such, the United States Air Force aims to consolidate SATC2 systems into an enterprise solution that utilizes a common Hu...
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Mithun Abdul Sathar Eqbal, Nuwantha Fernando, Matthew Marino and Graham Wild
The development of more efficient propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles is essential to achieve key objectives. These objectives are to increase efficiency while reducing the amount of carbon-based emissions. Hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) is an id...
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Giuseppe Siciliano, Dario Musolino
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This paper addresses the question of the economic benefits deriving from the application of satellite-based technologies in the rail sector, in particular in regional lines. The introduction of these technologies can generate a re-design of the control s...
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Olli Jansson and Matthew W. Harris
This paper presents new techniques for the trajectory design and control of nonlinear dynamical systems. The technique uses a convex polytope to bound the range of the nonlinear function and associates with each vertex an auxiliary linear system. Provide...
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Gaetano Quattrocchi, Pier C. Berri, Matteo D. L. Dalla Vedova and Paolo Maggiore
Adoption of electromechanical actuation systems in aerospace is increasing, and so reliable diagnostic and prognostics schemes are required to ensure safe operations, especially in key, safety-critical systems such as primary flight controls. Furthermore...
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Tao Wang, Lin Ding and Huahuang Yu
Currently, considerable efforts are being focused on the development of reusable rockets and smart rockets due to the heavy requirements of future next-generation aerospace transportation. Safety, low-launching cost, and repeatability are expected from l...
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Jiaolong Wang and Zeyang Chen
Motivated by the rapid progress of aerospace and robotics engineering, the navigation and control systems on matrix Lie groups have been actively studied in recent years. For rigid targets, the attitude estimation problem is a benchmark one with its stat...
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Muhamed Abdulhadi Obied, Fayed F. M. Ghaleb, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ahmed M. H. Abdelfattah and Wael Zakaria
Satellite telemetry data plays an ever-important role in both the safety and the reliability of a satellite. These two factors are extremely significant in the field of space systems and space missions. Since it is challenging to repair space systems in ...
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