Engineering Extremely Rare Events in Astrodynamics for Deep-Space Missions in Autonomy

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Stable sets mapping with Taylor differential algebra with application to ballistic capture orbits around Mars

Author(s): Pierluigi Di Lizia; Gianmario Merisio; Thomas Caleb; Francesco Topputo
Published in: CELESTIAL MECHANICS & DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY, 2022, ISSN 0923-2958
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-022-10090-8

High-Accuracy, Vision-Based Attitude Estimation System for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators

Author(s): Fabio Ornati, Gianfranco Di Domenico, Paolo Panicucci, Francesco Topputo
Published in: Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 579-591, ISSN 0022-4650
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/1.a36073

A Deterministic-Stochastic Hybrid Integrator for Random Ordinary Differential Equations with Aerospace Applications

Author(s): Carmine Giordano
Published in: Aerospace, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 397, ISSN 2226-4310
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12050397

Finding regions of bounded motion in binary asteroid environment using Lagrangian descriptors

Author(s): Gianmario Merisio; Sebastiano Raffa; Francesco Topputo
Published in: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE & NUMERICAL SIMULATION, 2023, ISSN 1007-5704
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2023.107198

The TinyV3RSE Hardware-in-the-Loop Vision-Based Navigation Facility

Author(s): Paolo Panicucci; Francesco Topputo
Published in: Sensors, 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s22239333

Deep-Space Optical Navigation Exploiting Multiple Beacons

Author(s): V. Franzese; F. Topputo
Published in: The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 2022, ISSN 2195-0571
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s40295-022-00303-5

Robust Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Using Convex Programming and a Homotopic Approach

Author(s): Andrea Carlo Morelli; Christian Hofmann; Francesco Topputo
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2022, ISSN 0018-9251
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/taes.2021.3128869

Qualitative study of ballistic capture at Mars via Lagrangian descriptors

Author(s): Alessio Quinci; Gianmario Merisio; Francesco Topputo
Published in: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE & NUMERICAL SIMULATION, 2023, ISSN 1007-5704
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2023.107285

Warm Start of Interior-Point Methods Applied to Sequential Convex Programming

Author(s): Andrea Carlo Morelli, Christian Hofmann, Francesco Topputo
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Issue 60, 2024, Page(s) 3837-3846, ISSN 0018-9251
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/taes.2024.3371405

A Homotopic Direct Collocation Approach for Operational-Compliant Trajectory Design

Author(s): Alessandra Mannocchi; Carmine Giordano; Francesco Topputo
Published in: THE JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2022, ISSN 2195-0571
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s40295-022-00351-x

Performance Assessment of Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Methods

Author(s): Christian Hofmann; Andrea C. Morelli; Francesco Topputo
Published in: JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS, 2023, ISSN 0022-4650
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/1.a35461

Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with No-Thrust Constraints and Moving Target

Author(s): Christian Hofmann, Francesco Topputo
Published in: Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Issue 61, 2024, Page(s) 889-899, ISSN 0022-4650
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/1.a35877

Convex Trajectory Optimization Using Thrust Regularization

Author(s): Andrea C. Morelli; Alessandro Morselli; Carmine Giordano; Francesco Topputo
Published in: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2024, ISSN 0731-5090
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/1.g007646

Onboard Orbit Determination for Deep-Space CubeSats

Author(s): Eleonora Andreis; Vittorio Franzese; Francesco Topputo
Published in: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2022, ISSN 0731-5090
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/1.g006294

Characterization of Gauss–Markov stochastic sequences for mission analysis

Author(s): Carmine Giordano
Published in: Astrodynamics, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 135-148, ISSN 2522-008X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s42064-023-0183-3

A Robust Image Processing Pipeline for Planets Line-Of-Sight Extraction for Deep-Space Autonomous Cubesats Navigation

Author(s): Andreis, E.; Panicucci, P.; Franzese, V.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

On the Performance of Discretization and Trust-Region Methods for On-Board Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization

Author(s): Hofmann, Christian; Morelli, Andrea C.; Topputo, Francesco
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-1892

Toward Self-Driving Interplanetary CubeSats: the ERC-Funded Project EXTREMA

Author(s): Di Domenico, G.; Andreis, E.; Andrea Carlo Morelli; Merisio, G.; Franzese, V.; Giordano, C.; Morselli, A.; Panicucci, P.; Ferrari, F.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation

Towards Validation and Verification of Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation for Interplanetary Spacecraft

Author(s): null null, Paolo Panicucci, Eleonora Andreis, Fabio Ornati, Francesco Topputo
Published in: Papers of ESA GNC-ICATT 2023, 2024
Publisher: ESA
DOI: 10.5270/esa-gnc-icatt-2023-112

A Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Integrator for Spacecraft Dynamics with Uncertainty

Author(s): Giordano, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

Design of Operational Compliant Trajectories Through a Homotopic Direct Collocation Algorithm

Author(s): Mannocchi, A.; Giordano, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

An Indirect Formulation of Operational Compliant Low-thrust Trajectories

Author(s): Alessandra Mannocchi, Carmine Giordano, Francesco Topputo
Published in: AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-0631

A Vision-Based Navigation Algorithm for Autonomous Deep-Space Cruise

Author(s): Andreis, E.; Panicucci, P.; Franzese, V.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Georgia Institute of Technology

The EXTREMA Autonomous Guidance Algorithm for Low-Thrust Interplanetary Spacecraft

Author(s): Morelli, A. C.; Morselli, A.; Perico, D.; Topputo, F.
Published in: Issue 16, 2025
Publisher: N.A.

Closed-Loop Guidance for Interplanetary CubeSats with Indirect Methods

Author(s): Mannocchi, A.; Giordano, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: Issue 2, 2025
Publisher: N.A.

Development of a flat-sat software for deep-space autonomous GNC hardware-in-the-loop testing

Author(s): D. Perico
Published in: Materials Research Proceedings, Aerospace Science and Engineering, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 239-246
Publisher: Materials Research Forum LLC
DOI: 10.21741/9781644902677-35

Characterization of Ballistic Capture Corridors Aiming at Autonomous Ballistic Capture at Mars

Author(s): Merisio, G.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

Backbone of Ballistic Capture Set

Author(s): Merisio, G.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

Improvements and Applications of the DART Vision-Based Navigation Test Bench TINYV3RSE

Author(s): Panicucci, P.; Pugliatti, M.; Franzese, V.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

ETHILE: A Thruster-In-The-Loop Facility to Enable Autonomous Guidance and Control of Autonomous Interplanetary CubeSat

Author(s): Morselli, A.; Morelli, A. C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation

Hardware-In-the-Loop Validation of Autonomous Interplanetary Navigation Algorithms for Interplanetary Cruises with the Optical Star Stimulator

Author(s): Eleonora Andreis, Hans Krüger, Svenja Woicke, Paolo Panicucci, Francesco Topputo
Published in: AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-0776

An Overview of Autonomous Optical Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats

Author(s): Andreis, E.; Vittorio Franzese; Topputo, F.
Published in: IAF Astrodynamics Symposium 2021, 2022
Publisher: Curran Associates, Inc.

An Overview of the EXTREMA Deep-Space Optical Navigation Experiment

Author(s): Panicucci, P.; Andreis, E.; Franzese, V.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Georgia Institute of TEchnology

A Convex Guidance Approach to Target Ballistic Capture Corridors at Mars

Author(s): Morelli, A. C.; Merisio, G.; Hofmann, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

The EXTREMA Orbital Simulation Hub: a Facility for GNC Testing of Autonomous Interplanetary CubeSat

Author(s): Morselli, A.; Di Domenico, G.; Andreis, E.; Morelli, A. C.; Merisio, G.; Franzese, V.; Giordano, C.; Panicucci, P.; Ferrari, F.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: European Space Agency

Toward Verification and Validation of the Milani Image Processing Pipeline in the Hardware-In-the-loop Testbench Tinyv3rse

Author(s): Piccolo, F.; Pugliatti, M.; Panicucci, P.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

An Overview of Autonomous Optical Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats

Author(s): Andreis, E.; Franzese, V.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation

Line-Of-Sight Extraction Algorithm for Deep-Space Autonomous Navigation

Author(s): Bella, S.; Andreis, E.; Franzese, V.; Panicucci, P.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

An Algorithm to Engineer Autonomous Ballistic Capture at Mars

Author(s): Merisio, G.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation

Combined Convex and Direct Shooting Optimization for Low-Thrust Trajectory Generation with Analytical Thrust Profile

Author(s): Morelli, A. C.; Morselli, A.; Giordano, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

Disturbances Quantification for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Attitude Simulation Platforms

Author(s): Gianfranco Di Domenico, Francesco Topputo
Published in: AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-0379

Integration of Onboard Autonomous Guidance and Navigation Algorithms for Interplanetary Cruise

Author(s): Eleonora Andreis; Andrea Carlo Morelli; Paolo Panicucci; Alessandro Morselli; Francesco Topputo
Published in: 2023
Publisher: European Space Agency
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8013754

Impact of Different Coordinate Sets on the Performance of Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization

Author(s): Hofmann, C.; Morelli, A. C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

TINYV3RSE: The DART Vision-Based Navigation Test-bench

Author(s): Pugliatti, Mattia; Franzese, Vittorio; Panicucci, Paolo; Topputo, Francesco
Published in: 2022
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-1193

A Homotopic Approach for Robust Low-Thrust Trajectory Design Through Convex Optimization

Author(s): Andrea Carlo Morelli; Hofmann, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation

SPESI: a Real-Time Space Environment Simulator for the EXTREMA Project

Author(s): Giordano, C.; Topputo, F.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: American Astronautical Society

The EXTREMA Thruster-In-The-Loop Experiment: a facility for hands-on testing of spacecraft guidance algorithms

Author(s): Alessandro Morselli, Francesco Topputo
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.452

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