Great opportunity this week to present our research direction on AI for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations at the American Control Conference (ACC2025) in Denver, Colorado. The work performed within the framework of the Center for AErospace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) discussed judicius, safe and robust, use of AI models to enhance existing state-of-the-art metodology and enable new capabilities in the fields of: 1) relative pose estimation and spacecraft shape reconstruction, 2) guidance and control for rendezvous and proximity operations, 3) decision making via Space Foundation Models and 4) digital and robotic twinning. Overall several contributions are outlined from the combined effort between the Stanford Space Rendezvous (Simone D'Amico) and the Autonomous Systems (Marco Pavone) Laboratories.
Thank you Martina Mammarella for the huge effort in organizing this tutorial session on "Controls for Space: A perspective to 2030s and Beyond", see papers below, and to all the speakers that provided a complementary view on the topic with contribution from both academia with Prof. Richard Linares (MIT) and Industry with Michael Acheson (NASA), Finn Ankersen (ESA), Takahiro Sasaki (JAXA) and Federica Paganelli Azza and Mattia Varile (AIKO).
Controls for Space: a perspective to 2030s and beyond I
Controls for Space: a perspective to 2030s and beyond II
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
