PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

Ricard Marsal I Castan, Akiyoshi Uchida, Aman Arora +7

Low-cost planar air-bearing testbeds have matured into a standard proxy for free-flying spacecraft GNC, but they remain largely thruster-only and are rarely equipped for contact-ri…