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
Doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Research 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.