Control Allocation Strategies in Spacecraft Rendezvous Operations

Under Review

Bearings-Only Guidance for Rendezvous in a Cis-Lunar NRHO

NOTE: The conference will take place on February 2021

Ephemeris validation of Rendezvous Guidance in Lunar NRHO

NOTE: The conference SciTech2021 will take place on January 2021

Thrust Expenditure Feasibility for Rendezvous Operations in Cis-Lunar Space

A Hybrid Approach to Detection and Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Nicola Espsoito, Umberto Fontana, Giampiero D'autilia, Lorenzo Bianchi, Michael Alibani, and Lorenzo Pollini AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum. January doi: 10.2514/6.2020-1345

This paper proposes a novel, hybrid vision-based system to autonomously detect and track a specific moving target, in our case an evader UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), with a moving camera. The framework is based on a detection stage which exploits a...

R. Costanzi, D. Fenucci, V. Manzari, M. Micheli, L. Morlando, D. Terracciano, A. Caiti, M. Stifani, A. Tesei: "Interoperability among Unmanned Maritime Vehicles: a review based on first in-field experimentation", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section

M. Bresciani, R. Costanzi, V. Manzari, D. Terracciano: " Acoustic Tracking System for AUVs Exploiting DoA Sensors - Calibration and Performance Characterisation", Joint 12th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics

N. C. Volpi et al., "Decoupled Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles," OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2018, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604908.

There is increasing interest in the deployment and operation of multiple autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) for a number of challenging scientific and commercial operational mission scenarios. Some of the missions, such as geotechnical surveying and 3D...

L. Pollini et al., "Development of the Guidance Navigation and Control System of the Folaga AUV for Autonomous Acoustic Surveys in the WiMUST Project," OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604632.

This paper deals with the development of the Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) system of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) used for acoustic surveys in the WiMUST projects. By exploiting the fact that the vehicle hull has a modular structure,...

ROSSONERO: a tool for preliminary rendezvous mission design in the restricted three-body problem

R. Costanzi, A. Gasparri, F. Pacienza, L. Pollini, A. Caiti, V. Manzari, D. Terracciano, M. Stifani, G. Pavoni, et al: "Visual acquisition system for georeferenced monitoring and reconstruction of the sea bottom using audio for data synchronisation",

Proceedings of Oceans 2019, Marseille, June 2019.

D. Terracciano, V. Manzari, M. Stifani, B. Allotta, A. Caiti, G. Casalino: " SEALab current research trends: Maritime Unmanned Systems for dual-use applications", 2019 IMEKO TC-19, International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, Genova, October 2019

Open Loop Safe Trajectory Design for Cislunar NRHO Rendezvous

D. Terracciano, R. Costanzi, V. Manzari, M. Stifani, A. Caiti, K. LePage, L. Troiano: "Passive detection and bearing-only tracking of large time-bandwidth signals using an AUV mounted Vector Sensor", Underwater Acoustic Conference & Exhibition series

Realistic Guidance Issues during Lunar Rendezvous with Third Body Perturbation

D. Terracciano, R. Costanzi, P. Guerrini, V. Manzari, L. Troiano, M. Stifani, A. Tesei, A. Caiti: "Bearing estimation in very shallow waters with an AUV mounted Acoustic Vector Sensor", Proceedings of Oceans 2019, Marseille, June 2019.

M. Alibani, C. Ferrara and L. Pollini, "Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Precise Control of Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2018, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604839.

In this work we address the problem of precise positioning and trajectory tracking for an Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (I-AUV). Two solutions, based on the Variable Structure Systems (VSS) theory, are proposed with focus on the Super...

Dynamical Issues in Rendezvous operations with Third Body Perturbation

Terracciano, D. S., Bazzarello, L., Caiti, A., Costanzi, R., Manzari, V. (2020). Marine Robots for Underwater Surveillance. Current Robotics Reports, 1-9.

Cutolo, F.; Mamone, V.; Carbonaro, N.; Ferrari, V.; Tognetti, A. "Ambiguity-Free Optical–Inertial Tracking for Augmented Reality Headsets," Sensors 2020

The increasing capability of computing power and mobile graphics has made possible the release of self-contained augmented reality (AR) headsets featuring efficient head-anchored tracking solutions. Ego motion estimation based on well-established...