2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
MasconCube: Fast and Accurate Gravity Modeling with an Explicit Representation
Pietro Fanti, Dario Izzo
The geodesy of irregularly shaped small bodies presents fundamental challenges for gravitational field modeling, particularly as deep space exploration missions increasingly target…
cs.RO2025
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…