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12/18/2020
Development of Techniques Enabling Suborbital Small Object Capture Around Low Gravity Asteroids
The exploration of small body asteroids provides direct access to the pr...
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12/15/2020
FemtoSats for Exploring Permanently Shadowed Regions on the Moon
The recent, rapid advancement in space exploration is thanks to the acce...
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09/19/2020
Co-Evolution of Multi-Robot Controllers and Task Cues for Off-World Open Pit Mining
Robots are ideal for open-pit mining on the Moon as its a dull, dirty, a...
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02/03/2020
The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects
The recent observation of interstellar objects, 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Boris...
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12/03/2019
Autonomous Robot Swarms for Off-World Construction and Resource Mining
Kick-starting the space economy requires identification of critical reso...
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10/09/2019
Development and Testing of an Engineering Model for an Asteroid Hopping Robot
The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Plan...
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10/09/2019
Autonomous Multirobot Technologies for Mars Mining Base Construction and Operation
Beyond space exploration, the next critical step towards living and work...
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10/09/2019
Automated Multidisciplinary Design and Control of Hopping Robots for Exploration of Extreme Environments on the Moon and Mars
The next frontier in solar system exploration will be missions targeting...
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09/02/2019
Building Small-Satellites to Live Through the Kessler Effect
The rapid advancement and miniaturization of spacecraft electronics, sen...
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03/19/2019
A Spring Propelled Extreme Environment Robot for Off-World Cave Exploration
Pits on the Moon and Mars are intriguing geological formations that have...
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02/06/2019
Spacecraft Swarm Attitude Control for Small Body Surface Observation
Understanding the physics of small bodies such as asteroids, comets, and...
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02/06/2019
Attitude Control of an Inflatable Sailplane for Mars Exploration
Exploration of Mars has been made possible using a series of landers, ro...
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02/06/2019
Guidance, Navigation and Control of Asteroid Mobile Imager and Geologic Observer (AMIGO)
The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Plan...
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02/06/2019
Motion Planning on an Asteroid Surface with Irregular Gravity Fields
There are thousands of asteroids in near-Earth space and millions in the...
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01/25/2019
Laser Communication and Coordination Control of Spacecraft Swarms
Swarms of small spacecraft offer whole new capabilities in Earth observa...
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01/25/2019
End to End Satellite Servicing and Space Debris Management
There is growing demand for satellite swarms and constellations for glob...
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12/30/2018
Coordination and Control of Multiple Climbing Robots in Transport of Heavy Loads through Extreme Terrain
The discovery of ice deposits in the permanently shadowed craters of the...
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09/06/2018
On-Orbit Smart Camera System to Observe Illuminated and Unilluminated Space Objects
The wide availability of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronics tha...
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09/06/2018
Satellite Capture and Servicing Using Networks of Tethered Robots Supported by Ground Surveillance
There is ever growing demand for satellite constellations that perform g...
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03/15/2018
Planning and Navigation of Climbing Robots in Low-Gravity Environments
Advances in planetary robotics have led to wheeled robots that have beam...
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03/07/2018
