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most citedVisual Language Models as Operator Agents in the Space Domain

7 citations · 16 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2026

DreamSat-Bench: Development and Initial Testing of a Testbed for AI-Based Pose Estimation from 3D Reconstruction

Alex Posadas-Nava, August Berne, Giovanni Lavezzi +8

This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity operation testbed designed to benchmark AI-based relative navigation t…

cs.CV2026

DreamSat-Pose: Spacecraft Pose Estimation from Single-View 3D Reconstructions and Learned 2D-3D Feature Matching

Josiane Uwumukiza, Jocelyn Zhao, Giovanni Lavezzi +5

6-DoF pose estimation is a critical task in autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations. In the case of an unknown target, this task becomes challenging as it shall be paired wi…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Phase Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization via Transformer-Based Reinforcement Learning

Amit Jain, Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Richard Linares

Autonomous spacecraft control for mission phases such as launch, ascent, stage separation, and orbit insertion remains a critical challenge due to the need for adaptive policies th…

cs.AI2025★ 6 cited

Large Language Models as Autonomous Spacecraft Operators in Kerbal Space Program

Alejandro Carrasco, Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Richard Linares

Recent trends are emerging in the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents that take actions based on the content of the user text prompts. We intend to apply these…

astro-ph.EP2025

Increasing Determinism of All-vs-all Orbital Evolution Simulators

Enrico M. Zucchelli, Daniel Jang, Richard Linares

All-vs-all orbital evolutionary simulations for the low Earth orbit (LEO) simulate the long term evolution of the LEO environment. Although these simulations typically offer the hi…

cs.AI2025★ 7 cited

Visual Language Models as Operator Agents in the Space Domain

Alejandro Carrasco, Marco Nedungadi, Enrico M. Zucchelli +3

This paper explores the application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as operator agents in the space domain, focusing on both software and hardware operational paradigms. Building…

cs.CV2024

DreamSat: Towards a General 3D Model for Novel View Synthesis of Space Objects

Nidhi Mathihalli, Audrey Wei, Giovanni Lavezzi +4

Novel view synthesis (NVS) enables to generate new images of a scene or convert a set of 2D images into a comprehensive 3D model. In the context of Space Domain Awareness, since sp…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Simulating the Evolution of Lethal Non-Trackable Population and its Effect on LEO Sustainability

Daniel Jang, Richard Linares

The vast majority of the orbital population today is unobservable and untracked because of their small size. These lethal non-trackable objects will only become more numerous as mo…

cs.AI2024

Fine-tuning LLMs for Autonomous Spacecraft Control: A Case Study Using Kerbal Space Program

Alejandro Carrasco, Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Richard Linares

Recent trends are emerging in the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents that take actions based on the content of the user text prompt. This study explores the u…

physics.space-ph2024★ 2 cited

Language Models are Spacecraft Operators

Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Alejandro Carrasco, Jason Cheng +3

Recent trends are emerging in the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents that take actions based on the content of the user text prompts. We intend to apply these…

physics.space-ph2024

Towards a Machine Learning-Based Approach to Predict Space Object Density Distributions

Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez, Sumiyajav Sarangerel, Peng Mun Siew +3

With the rapid increase in the number of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs), Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is facing significant congestion, thereby posing challenges to space operators an…