Spacecraft

Omnicopters for Spacecraft Simulation

AFRL-funded senior design project using omnicopters as hardware-in-the-loop spacecraft simulators. Developed optimal motor placement and a novel indoor disturbance-rejection …

Autonomous Spacecraft and Sensing

Simulation of a LEO satellite with autonomous debris avoidance, optical debris detection, attitude correction, and cyber-attack resilience — built in the Basilisk simulator.

Hall Thruster Design Optimization

Adaptive neural surrogate for 1D Hall thruster discharge simulation, used to optimize magnetic field profiles for improved thruster efficiency.

Detection of Debris from a Dynamic Satellite Platform

Novel algorithm for detecting orbital debris from images taken by a moving space-based observer, using optical flow background removal that preserves faint objects.