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Vision-Guided Optic Flow Navigation for Small Lunar Missions
Sean Cowan, Pietro Fanti, Leon B. S. Williams +4
Private lunar missions are faced with the challenge of robust autonomous navigation while operating under stringent constraints on mass, power, and computational resources. This wo…
Asteroid Mining: ACT&Friends' Results for the GTOC 12 Problem
Dario Izzo, Marcus Märtens, Laurent Beauregard +8
In 2023, the 12th edition of Global Trajectory Competition was organised around the problem referred to as "Sustainable Asteroid Mining". This paper reports the developments that l…
The Fellowship of the Dyson Ring: ACT&Friends' Results and Methods for GTOC 11
Marcus Märtens, Dario Izzo, Emmanuel Blazquez +7
Dyson spheres are hypothetical megastructures encircling stars in order to harvest most of their energy output. During the 11th edition of the GTOC challenge, participants were tas…
GTOC8: Results and Methods of ESA Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA-ISAS
Dario Izzo, Daniel Hennes, Marcus Märtens +7
We consider the interplanetary trajectory design problem posed by the 8th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition and present the end-to-end strategy developed by…
Towards a High Fidelity Direct Transcription Method for Optimisation of Low-Thrust Trajectories
Chit Hong Yam, Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani
We build upon some new ideas in direct transcription methods developed within the Advanced Concepts Team to introduce two improvements to the Sims-Flanagan transcription for low-th…
A Global Optimisation Toolbox for Massively Parallel Engineering Optimisation
Francesco Biscani, Dario Izzo, Chit Hong Yam
A software platform for global optimisation, called PaGMO, has been developed within the Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) at the European Space Agency, and was recently released as an…