Autonomous Spacecraft and Sensing
April 1, 2024
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A systems-level demonstration of autonomous spacecraft operations, presented to a general audience and built entirely in the Basilisk astrodynamics simulator.
Capabilities demonstrated:
- Attitude correction and momentum management
- Onboard debris detection via simulated optical sensor using an optical flow background removal scheme
- Autonomous debris avoidance via thruster actuation
- Cyber-attack simulation targeting autonomous operations with minimal detectability
- Anomaly detection using LSTMs and isolation forests
Authors
Graduate Researcher
Outland is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. His research is in differential game theory, safe multi-agent systems, and computational astrodynamics — with a focus on algorithms that are tractable enough to run onboard while providing formal guarantees.