We present a satellite path-planning technique able to make a set of identical spacecraft
acquire a given configuration. The technique exploits a behavior-based approach to achieve …

With cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other new information technologies
going into space, the era of space intelligence is coming. The spacecraft is facing more …

More and more, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will rely on
concepts from autonomous systems not only in mission control centers on the ground, but …

In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing
autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA …

One of the key requirements of a satellite cluster is to maintain formation flight among its
physically distinct elements while at the same time being capable of collision avoidance …

A reconfigurable space filling robotic architecture has a wide range of possible applications.
One of the more intriguing possibilities is mobility in very irregular and otherwise impassable …

A general-purpose method to mechanically transform system requirements into a provably
equivalent model has yet to appear. Such a method represents a necessary step toward …

We present a scalable and distributed control strategy for swarms of satellites to
autonomously form an hexagonal lattice in space around a predefined meeting point. The …

Self organisation is the result of a set of dynamical mechanisms whereby structures appear
at a global level due to the interactions amongst lower-level components. Self assembly can …

This work presents an automated mission design architecture for global surface mapping
missions to planetary moons. Such missions need to address three important challenges …