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Operational Angular Track Reconstruction in Space Surveillance Radars through an Adaptive Beamforming Approach by Montaruli, Marco Felice, De Luca, Maria Alessandra, Massari, Mauro, Bianchi, Germano, Magro, Alessio

“…In the last few years, many space surveillance initiatives have started to consider the problem represented by resident space object overpopulation. In…”
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Application of SDRE technique to orbital and attitude control of spacecraft formation flying by Massari, Mauro, Zamaro, Mattia

“…This paper proposes the application of a nonlinear control technique for coupled orbital and attitude relative motion of formation flying. Recently, mission…”
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Adaptive generalized ZEM-ZEV feedback guidance for planetary landing via a deep reinforcement learning approach by Furfaro, Roberto, Scorsoglio, Andrea, Linares, Richard, Massari, Mauro

“…Precision landing on large and small planetary bodies is a technology of utmost importance for future human and robotic exploration of the solar system. In…”
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Convex optimisation approach to constrained fuel optimal control of spacecraft in close relative motion by Massioni, Paolo, Massari, Mauro

“…•A solution method is proposed for spacecraft fuel optimal control problems.•The method is suitable for spacecraft close motion dynamics.•The method turns the…”
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Relative motion guidance for near-rectilinear lunar orbits with path constraints via actor-critic reinforcement learning by Scorsoglio, Andrea, Furfaro, Roberto, Linares, Richard, Massari, Mauro

“…This paper presents a feedback guidance algorithm for proximity operation in cislunar environment based on actor-critic reinforcement learning. The algorithm…”
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Adaptive Hybrid System Framework for Unified Impedance and Admittance Control by Cavenago, Francesco, Voli, Lorenzo, Massari, Mauro

“…Impedance and Admittance Control are two well-known controllers to accomplish the same goal: the regulation of the mechanical impedance of manipulators…”
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On-board spacecraft relative pose estimation with high-order extended Kalman filter by Cavenago, Francesco, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro, Wittig, Alexander

“…This paper analyzes the real-time relative pose estimation and attitude prediction of a tumbling target spacecraft through a high-order numerical extended…”
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Contact detection, isolation and estimation for orbital robots through an observer based on a centroid-joints dynamics by Cavenago, Francesco, Giordano, Alessandro M., Massari, Mauro

“…In this paper, the contact force detection, isolation and estimation problems for an orbital robot are addressed. First, an observer based on a base-joints…”
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Initial orbit determination with the multibeam radar sensor BIRALES by Losacco, Matteo, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro, Naldi, Giovanni, Pupillo, Giuseppe, Bianchi, Germano, Siminski, Jan

“…In this work we present a conceptual analysis of the use of the novel Italian multibeam radar sensor BIRALES for space surveillance. The dedicated orbit…”
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Real-time space object tracklet extraction from telescope survey images with machine learning by De Vittori, Andrea, Cipollone, Riccardo, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro

“…In this study, a novel approach based on the U-Net deep neural network for image segmentation is leveraged for real-time extraction of tracklets from optical…”
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Semi-Active Damping System Characterization for Landing in Microgravity by Massari, Mauro, Astori, Paolo, Cavenago, Francesco

“…The landing of space probes in microgravity poses very challenging problems both from the dynamical and technological point of view. The main problem of…”
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Virtual Model Control for Planetary Hexapod Robot Walking on Rough Terrain by Massari, Mauro, Cavenago, Francesco, Canafoglia, Marco

“…In this paper, Virtual Model Control (VMC) is proposed to address the gait control problem of a space hexapod robot. In the VMC framework, a series of virtual…”
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Satellite and robotic arm combined control for spacecraft close-proximity operations by Basana, Federico, Pavanello, Zeno, Branz, Francesco, Francesconi, Alessandro, Borelli, Giacomo, Invernizzi, Davide, Massari, Mauro, Lovera, Marco, Nocerino, Alessia, Opromolla, Roberto, Huertas Garcia, Irene, Simplicio, Pedro

“…Abstract This work presents the development of the navigation and control subsystems of a guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system for controlling an…”
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Radar observation and recontruction of Cosmos 1408 fragmentation by Muciaccia, Andrea, Facchini, Luca, Montaruli, Marco Felice, Purpura, Giovanni, Detomaso, Roberto, Colombo, Camilla, Massari, Mauro, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Di Cecco, Alessandra, Salotti, Luca, Bianchi, Germano

“…•Monitoring of the cloud of fragments using BIRALES.•Detection of Cosmos 1408 fragmentation using PUZZLE software.•Epoch estimation of Cosmos 1408…”
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An approach to contact detection and isolation for free-floating space robots based on momentum monitoring by Cavenago, Francesco, Giordano, Alessandro M., Bei Munchen, Garching, Massari, Mauro

“…In this paper, contact detection and isolation problems for a free-floating space robot are addressed. An approach based on monitoring the total momentum of…”
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An orbit determination software suite for Space Surveillance and Tracking applications by Montaruli, Marco Felice, Purpura, Giovanni, Cipollone, Riccardo, Vittori, Andrea De, Facchini, Luca, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro, Peroni, Moreno, Panico, Alessandro, Cecchini, Andrea, Rigamonti, Marco

“…The growth of both operational satellites and orbital debris is creating the requirement for more robust Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST)-related…”
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LUMIO: A CubeSat to Monitor Micro-meteroid Impacts on the Lunar Farside by Speretta, Stefano, Turan, Erdem, Cervone, Angelo, Menicucci, Alessandra, Topputo, Francesco, Franzese, Vittorio, Giordano, Carmine, Merisio, Gianmario, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro, Labate, Demetrio, Taiti, Alessio, Pilato, Giuseppe, Bertels, Eric, Paskeviciute, Agne, Woroniak, Katarzyna, Koschny, Detlef, Vennekens, Johan, Walker, Roger

“…The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission at the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point 2 (L 2 ) designed to observe, quantify, and characterize…”
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Effect of Commercial Dried Sourdough on Structural Characteristics of Wheat Bread by Laura Principato, Guillermo Duserm Garrido, Mauro Massari, Roberta Dordoni, Giorgia Spigno

“…This study investigated the effect of the addition of three commercial dried sourdoughs containing different percentages of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (25-30%),…”
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Spaceship Earth. Space-driven technologies and systems for sustainability on ground by Castiglioni, Alberto Giovanni, Bigdeli, Masoud Bozorg, Palamini, Cristina, Martinoia, Diego, Frezza, Ludovica, Matassini, Beatrice, Pizzocri, Davide, Massari, Mauro

“…As awareness towards the problem is growing, eco-friendliness is today a paramount requirement for all space activities and in particular for the ground…”
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The Multibeam Radar Sensor BIRALES: Performance Assessment for Space Surveillance and Tracking by Losacco, Matteo, Schiaffino, Marco, Perini, Federico, Lama, Luca, Mazro, Alessio, Cutaiar, Denis, Borg, Josef, Villadei, Walter, Reali, Marco, Di Lizia, Pierluigi, Massari, Mauro, Bianchi, Germano, Pupillo, Giuseppe, Mattana, Andrea, Naldi, Giovanni, Bertolotti, Claudio, Roma, Mauro

“…Near-Earth space has become progressively more crowded in active satellites, inactive spacecraft and debris. Consequently, an international effort is currently…”
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