This is the list of peer reviewed research papers published by Stardust-R members so far. Each publication is provided with link to a repository where a copy can be downloaded free of charge in one or two mouse clicks. Click on the title of publication to get a copy.
- Pugliatti, M., Topputo, F., Small-Body Shape Recognition with Convolutional Neural Network and Comparison with Explicit Features Based Method, Proceedings of AIAA/AAS,
- Peñarroya, Pelayo; Vyas, Shubham; Paoli, Roberto; Kajak, Karl M, Survey of Landing Methods on Small Bodies : Benefits of Robotics Manipulators to the Field, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space.
- Giacomo Lari, Melaine Saillenfest, Marco Fenucci, Long-term evolution of the Galilean satellites: the capture of Callisto into resonance, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 639.
- Vyas, Shubham; Jankovic, Marko; Kirchner, Frank, Momentum Based Classification for Robotic Active Debris Removal, Proceedings of IAA 2020.
- Fenucci, Marco; Gronchi, Giovanni F., Symmetric constellations of satellites moving around a central body of large mass. J Dyn Diff Equat (2021)
- Matteo Manzi, Massimiliano Vasile, Orbital anomaly reconstruction using deep symbolic regression, 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020.
- Matteo Manzi, Massimiliano Vasile, Analysis of stochastic nearly-integrable dynamical systems using polynomial chaos expansions, 2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.
- Matteo Manzi, Massimiliano Vasile, Discovering Unmodeled Components in Astrodynamics with Symbolic Regression, 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC).
- Mauricio Misquero, The spin-spin model and the capture into the double synchronous resonance.
- Alessandro Margheri, Mauricio Misquero, A dissipative Kepler problem with a family of singular drags, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 132/3.
- Mauricio Misquero, Rafael Ortega, Some Rigorous Results on the 1:1 Resonance of the Spin-Orbit Problem, SIAM, Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 19/4.
- Casini, I. Fodde, S. Engelen, B. Monna, A. Cervone and E. Gill, Towards the use of commercial-off-the-shelf small-satellite components for deep-space CubeSats: a feasibility and performance analysis, SmallSat, 2020 – 34th Small Satellite Conference.
- Alessandra Celletti, Catalin Gales, Christoph Lhotka, Resonances in the Earth’s space environment, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation Volume 84.
- Pugliatti, M., Topputo, F., Onborad Small-Body semantic segmentation based on morphological features with U-Net, 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting AAS 21-378.
- Fabio Ferrari, Vittorio Franzese, Mattia Pugliatti, Carmine Giordano, Francesco Topputo, Preliminary mission profile of Hera’s Milani CubeSat, Advances in Space Research 67/6.
- Cavallari, Irene; Gronchi, Giovanni Federico; Bau’, Giulio, On the Sun-shadow dynamics.
- Pugliatti, M., Topputo, F., Navigation About Irregular Bodies Through Segmentation Maps, AAS Proceedings, 1.
- Pugliatti, M., Maestrini, M., Di Lizia, P., Topputo, F., On-board Small-Body Semantic Segmentation Based on Morphological Features with U-Net, 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting at Charlotte, NC 1.
- Stevenson, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, V., Minisci, E., Camacho, D., (2020). A Deep Learning
Approach to Space Weather Proxy Forecasting for Orbital Prediction. In Proceedings of the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC), The CyberSpace Edition, 12-14 October 2020. - Bottiglieri, F. Piccolo, A. Rizza, C. Giordano, M. Pugliatti, V. Franzese, F. Ferrari, F. Topputo, Trajectory design and orbit determination of Hera’s Milani CubeSat, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, 2021.
- Topputo, F. Ferrari, V. Franzese, M. Pugliatti, C. Giordano, A. Rizza, C. Bottiglieri, F, Picollo, The Hera Milani CubeSat Mission, 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, April 2021.
- Ferrari, V. Franzese, M. Pugliatti, C. Giordano, F. Topputo, Trajectory Options for Hera’s Milani CubeSat Around (65803) Didymos, Journal of Astronautical Sciences, 196, 2021.
- Jerome Daquin, Edoardo Legnaro, Ioannis Gkolias, Christos Efthymiopoulos, A deep dive into the 2g+h resonance: separatrices, manifolds and phase space structure of navigation satellites.
- Stevenson, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, V., Urrutxua, H., Morand, V., Camacho, D. (2021). Artificial Intelligence for All vs. All Conjunction Screening. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Space Debris, Darmstadt, Germany, 20-23 April 2021.
- Stevenson, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, V., Minisci, E., Camacho, D. A Deep Learning Approach to Solar Radio Flux Forecasting. Acta Astronautica. ISSN 0094-5765, 2021.
- Casini, S.; Fodde, I.; Monna, B.; Cervone, A.; Gill, E. Novel 3U Stand-Alone CubeSat Architecture for Autonomous Near Earth Asteroid Fly-By. Aerospace,2021, 8, 9.
- Peñarroya, P., Pugliatti, M., Centuori, S., Topputo, F. , Using Blender as contact dynamics engine for CubeSat landing simulations within impact crater on Dimorphos, 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, April 2021.
- Peñarroya, P., Paoli R., Orbit Propagation Around Small Bodies Using Spherical Harmonic Coefficients Obtained From Polyhedron Shape Models, 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, 2021.
- Greco, L. Sanchez, M. Vasile, A Robust Bayesian Agent for Optimal Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre Planning, 8th European Conference on Space Debris, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 2021.
- Gronchi, G. Baù, ́O. Rodríguez, R. Jedicke, and J. Moeyens. Generalization of a method by Mossotti for initial orbit determination. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2021) 133:41.
- Fenucci, Marco; Novaković, Bojan. The role of the Yarkovsky effect in the long-term dynamics of asteroid (469219) Kamo’oalewa, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 162, Number 6, (2021).
- Celletti, A., Pucacco, G. & Vartolomei, T. Reconnecting groups of space debris to their parent body through proper elements. Sci Rep 11, 22676 (2021).
- Ferrari, Fabio & Franzese, Vittorio & Pugliatti, Mattia & Giordano, Carmine & Topputo, Francesco. Preliminary mission profile of Hera’s Milani CubeSat. Advances in Space Research. 67, (2021).
- Peñarroya, Pelayo & Pugliatti, Mattia & Ferrari, Fabio & Centuori, Simone & Topputo, Francesco & Vetrisano, Massimo & Sanjurjo-Rivo, Manuel. CubeSat Landing Simulations on Small Bodies using Blender. Advances in Space Research, (2022).
- Stevenson, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, V., Minisci, E., Camacho, D., A Deep Learning Approach to Solar Radio Flux Forecasting. Acta Astronautica, 193 (2022) 595–606, ISSN 0094-5765, (2022).
- Stevenson, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, V., Urrutxua, H., Camacho, D., Benchmarking deep learning approaches for all-vs-all conjunction screening. Advances in Space, (2023).
- Cavallari, I., Gronchi, F.G., & Baù, G. On the Sun-shadow dynamics. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 432, 133136, 2022.
- Cavallari I., Efthymiopoulos C. Closed form perturbation theory in the restricted three-body problem. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 134, 16, 2022.
- Cavallari I., Pucacco G. Bifurcation of frozen orbits in a gravity field with zonal harmonics. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. 134, 49, 2022.
- Wang Y., Vasile M. Intelligent selection of NEO deflection strategies under uncertainty. Advances in Space Research, 2022. Fenucci, B. Novakovi´c, Mercury and OrbFit packages for numerical integration of planetary systems: implementation of the Yarkovsky and YORP effects, Serbian Astronomical Journal 204, 51, 2022.
- Asselle, M. Fenucci, A. Portaluri, Bifurcations of balanced configurations for the Newtonian n-body problem in R4, Journal of Fixed Points Theory and Applications 24, 22, 2022.
- Fenucci, Local minimality properties of circular motions in 1/rα potentials and of the figure-eight solution of the 3-body problem, Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Volume 3, 2022.
- Fenucci, B. Novakovi´c, D. Vokoruhlick´y, R. J. Weryk, Low thermal conductivity of the superfast rotator (499998) 2011 PT, Astronomy & Astrophysics 647, A61, 2021.
- Celletti, A., Pucacco, G. & Vartolomei, T. Proper elements for space debris. Celest Mech Dyn Astr 134, 11, 2022.
- Celletti, A., Pucacco, G., & Vartolomei, T. Back-tracing space debris using proper elements. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 15(S364), 134-139, 2022.
- Celletti, A., Vartolomei, T. Old perturbative methods for a new problem in Celestial Mechanics: the space debris dynamics. Boll Unione Mat Ital, 2023.
- Daquin, J., Legnaro, E., Gkolias, I. et al. A deep dive into the 2g+h resonance: separatrices, manifolds and phase space structure of navigation satellites. Celest Mech Dyn Astr 134, 6, 2022.
- Legnaro, Edoardo, and Christos Efthymiopoulos. A detailed dynamical model for inclination-only dependent lunisolar resonances. Effect on the “eccentricity growth” mechanism. Advances in Space Research, 2022.
- Roberto Paoli, Analytical and Numerical Estimates for Solar Radiation Pressure Semi-secular Resonances, Advances in Space Research, 2023.
- Laino, M. A., Wilson, A. R., Vasile, M., Paoli, R., Gales, C., A Transport Network for In-Orbit Recycling Exploiting Natural Dynamics, in Proceedings of 73rd International Astronautical Congress, 2022.
- Peñarroya, P. and Paoli, R., Orbit propagation around small bodies using spherical harmonic coefficients obtained from polyhedron shape models., IAU Symposium, vol. 364, pp. 203–210, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Piccolo, Felice & Topputo, Francesco. Object Recognition Algorithms for the Didymos Binary System, Proceedings of AII, 2022.
- Mattia Pugliatti, Hardware-in-the-loop simulation framework for CubeSats proximity operations: application to the Milani mission, Proceedings of IAC, 2022.
- Mattia Pugliatti, Design of the vision-based GNC subsystem of Hera’s Milani mission, Proceedings of IAC, 2022.
- Buonagura, Carmine & Pugliatti, Mattia & Franzese, Vittorio & Topputo, Francesco & Zeqaj, Aurel & Zannoni, Marco & Varile, Mattia & Bloise, Ilaria & Fontana, Federico & Rossi, Francesco & Feruglio, Lorenzo & Cardone, Mauro. Deep Learning for Navigation of Small Satellites about Asteroids: an Introduction to the DeepNav Project, Proceedings of AII, 2022.
- Bottiglieri, Claudio & Piccolo, Felice & Rizza, Antonio & Pugliatti, Mattia & Franzese, Vittorio & Giordano, Carmine & Ferrari, Fabio & Topputo, Francesco, MISSION ANALYSIS AND NAVIGATION ASSESSMENT FOR HERA’S MILANI CUBESAT, Proceedings of 4S Symposium, 2022.
- Buonagura, Carmine & Pugliatti, Mattia & Topputo, Francesco. Procedural Minor Body Generator Tool for Data-Driven Optical Navigation Methods, Proceedings of 6th CEAS conference on GNC, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Franzese, Vittorio & Rizza, Antonio & Piccolo, Felice & Bottiglieri, Claudio & Giordano, Carmine & Ferrari, Fabio & Topputo, Francesco. Design of the On-Board Image Processing of the Milani Mission, 44th AAS&GNC conference, 2022.
- Piccolo, Felice & Pugliatti, Mattia & Panicucci, Paolo & Topputo, Francesco. Toward Verification and Validation of the Milani Image. Processing of 44th AAS&GNC conference, 2022.
- Panicucci, Paolo & Pugliatti, Mattia & Franzese, Vittorio & Topputo, Francesco. Improvements and Applications of the DART Vision-Based Navigation Test-Bench TinyV3RSE, Processing of 44th AAS&GNC conference, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Rizza, Antonio & Piccolo, Felice & Franzese, Vittorio & Bottiglieri, Claudio & Giordano, Carmine & Ferrari, Fabio & Topputo, Francesco, The Milani mission: overview and architecture of the optical-based GNC system, Proceedings of AIAA SciTech Forum, 10.2514/6.2022-2381, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Franzese, Vittorio & Topputo, Francesco. (2022). Data-Driven Image Processing for Onboard Optical Navigation Around a Binary Asteroid. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 59. 1-17. 10.2514/1.A35213.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Panicucci, Paolo & Franzese, Vittorio & Topputo, Francesco. TINYV3RSE: The DART Vision-Based Navigation Test-bench.2514/6.2022-1193, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia & Maestrini, Michele. (2022). Small-Body Segmentation Based on Morphological Features with a U-Shaped Network Architecture. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 59. 1-15. 10.2514/1.A35447.
- Pugliatti, Mattia; Topputo, Francesco; Design of convolutional extreme learning machines for vision-based navigation around small bodies. arXiv preprint, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia; Topputo, Francesco; DOORS: Dataset fOr bOuldeRs Segmentation. statistical properties and blender setup., arXiv preprint, 2022.
- Pugliatti, Mattia; Topputo, Francesco; Boulders Identification on Small Bodies Under Varying Illumination Conditions. arXiv preprint, 2022.
- Buonagura, Carmine & Pugliatti, Mattia & Topputo, Francesco. Image Processing Robustness Assessment of Small-Body Shapes. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 2022.
- Vyas, S., Jankovic, M. and Kirchner, F., Momentum based classification for robotic active debris removal. Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 9(4), pp.649-655, 2022.
- Vyas, S., Maywald, L., Kumar, S., Jankovic, M., Mueller, A. and Kirchner, F., Post-capture detumble trajectory stabilization for robotic active debris removal. Advances in Space Research. 2022.
- Wiebe, F., Babel, J., Kumar, S., Vyas, S., Harnack, D., Boukheddimi, M., Popescu, M. and Kirchner, F., Torque-limited simple pendulum: A toolkit for getting familiar with control algorithms in underactuated robotics.Journal of Open Source Software, 7(74), p.3884, 2022.
- Vyas, S., Wehbe, BIlal., and Kumar, Shivesh., Quaternion based LQR for Free-Floating Robots Without Gravity. In 6th CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, (EuroGNC-2022), Berlin, CEAS, May. 2022.
- Bredenbeck, A., Vyas, S., Zwick, M., Borrmann, D., Olivares-Mendez, M.A. and Nüchter, A., 2022, October. Trajectory Optimization and Following for a Three Degrees of Freedom Overactuated Floating Platform. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4084-4091). IEEE.
- Boukheddimi, M., Harnack, D., Kumar, S., Kumar, R., Vyas, S., Arriaga, O., and Kirchner, F., 2022, October. Robot Dance Generation with Music Based Trajectory Optimization. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 3069-3076). IEEE.
- Bredenbeck, A., Vyas, S., Zwick, M., Borrmann, D., Olivares-Mendez, M. and Nüchter, A., 2022. Finding and following optimal trajectories for an overactuated floating robotic platform. In 16th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, 2022. ESA Noordwijk, Netherlands.
- Koch, C.E.S., Jankovic, M., Natarajan, S., Vyas, S., Brinkmann, W., Bissonnette, V., Germa, T., Turetta, A. and Kirchner, F., 2020. Underwater Demonstrator for Autonomous In-Orbit Assembly of Large Structures. In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS).
- F Wiebe, S Vyas, L J Maywald, S Kumar, F Kirchner., RealAIGym: Education and Research Platform for Studying Athletic Intelligence. In Mind the Gap: Opportunities and Challenges in the Transition Between Research and Industry, (RSS-2022), 27.6.-01.7.2022, New York, New York, Robotics Science and Systems, Online Proceedings, 2022. RSS Foundation.
- Casini, Stefano, et al., Line-of-Sight Navigation Observability Analysis for Near Earth Asteroid Exploration with CubeSat. 73rd International Astronautical Congress, Paris (FR), (2022).
- Casini, Stefano, et al., On line-of-sight navigation for deep-space applications: A performance analysis. Advances in Space Research, (2022).
- Celletti, A., Gimeno, J. & Misquero, M. The Spin–Spin Problem in Celestial Mechanics. J Nonlinear Sci 32, 88 (2022).
- Peddakotla, Sai Abhishek, Jie Yuan, Edmondo Minisci, Massimiliano Vasile, and Marco Fossati. A numerical approach to evaluate temperature-dependent peridynamics damage model for destructive atmospheric entry of spacecraft. The Aeronautical Journal (2022): 1-30.