The growing interest in Artificial Intelligence is pervading several domains of technology and
robotics research. Only recently has the space community started to investigate deep …

DISTRIBUTED space systems composed of several microsatel-lites flying in formation are
becoming increasingly attractive for the space community. As the number of satellites …

Small bodies environment is usually difficult to be modelled for a number of reasons. Among
the others, the uncertainty associated to the non-uniform gravitational field requires in-situ …

Future science and exploration missions will implement innovative mission concepts to
embark on daring endeavors exploiting cooperating intelligent systems. The concept of …

The following chapter gives an overview on modern techniques for Guidance, Navigation,
and Control (GNC). In particular, an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques is …

Formation flying is increasingly becoming a hot topic in the context of future space missions,
due to the intrinsic advantages in exploiting smaller distributed systems rather than a single …

Spacecraft Orbit-Attitude Coupled Dynamics in Close Proximity to Small-Bodies Page 1
Spacecraft Orbit-Attitude Coupled Dynamics in Close Proximity to Small-Bodies by Dante …

The increasingly ambitious objectives of small bodies exploration pose several difficulties to
missions design, requiring a precise development of safe and robust trajectories, to …