3 papers
cs.RO2026
Control Barrier Functions for Safe Free-Flying Robotic Spacecraft Operations in Tumbling Target Capture
Alexander Meinert, Peter Stadler, Niklas Baldauf +1
This paper presents a modular control barrier function (CBF) framework for safe free-flying robotic spacecraft operations during tumbling target capture. Motivated by latest ESA gu…
cs.RO2026
Lightweight Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Attitude Synchronization
Peter Stadler, Alexander Meinert, Niklas Baldauf +1
This work introduces two lightweight model predictive control (MPC) approaches for attitude tracking with reaction wheels during spacecraft rendezvous synchronization. Both approac…
cs.RO2026
Safety-Guaranteed Imitation Learning from Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Close Proximity Operations
Alexander Meinert, Niklas Baldauf, Peter Stadler +1
This paper presents a safety-guaranteed, runtime-efficient imitation learning framework for spacecraft close proximity control. We leverage Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) for saf…