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Visual-Based Lunar Positioning Using a Multi-Stage Multi-Head Neural Network

The Moon has emerged as a central focus in contemporary space exploration, as evidenced by the growing deployment of satellites for …

Alessio Derobertis, Toshinori Kuwahara, Paolo Lunghi

Investigation of Low-Energy Spiking Neural Networks Based on Temporal Coding for Scene Classification

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are becoming increasingly interesting to the space domain due to their energy eﬀiciency. Indeed, small …

Paolo Lunghi, Stefano Silvestrini, Dominik Dold, Gabriele Meoni, Alexander Hadjiivanov, Dario Izzo

AIVIONIC - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in on-Board Avionics and Software

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in particular Deep Learning (DL) has led to major advances in several industries including …

Robert Hinz, Baltazar Parreira, João Belfo, Marcos Quintana, Paulo Rosa, Jesus Balsalobre, Francisco Membibre, Antonio Latorre, Fintan Bucley, José Luis Espisona-Aranda, Elena Hervas-Martin, Jesús Gamero-Tello, Ilaria Bloise, Lorenzo Feruglio, Mattia Varile, Stefano Silvestrini, Margherita Piccinin, Andrea Brandonisio, Paolo Lunghi, Michèle Lavagna, Amit Sahu, Michell Guzman, Holger Pfeifer, Christophe Honvault, Luis Mansilla

Spacecraft Pose Estimation via Monocular Image Processing: Dataset Generation and Validation

A new tool capable of rendering high-quality spaceborne synthetic images via ray-tracing is here presented. The assumptions and …

Michele Bechini, Paolo Lunghi, Michèle Lavagna

ARGOS: Calibrated Facility for Image Based Relative Navigation Technologies on Ground Verification and Testing

This paper presents the recent developments of ARGOS, a GNC experimental facility at Politecnico of Milano, at the premises of the …

Margherita Piccinin, Stefano Silvestrini, Giovanni Zanotti, Andrea Brandonisio, Paolo Lunghi, Michèle Lavagna

HERMES Constellation: A New Paragdim for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Cubesats

Nowadays the distributed and fractionated systems, very promising to cope with challenging space applications, are eventually moving …

Michèle Lavagna, Fabrizio Fiore, Paolo Lunghi, Andrea Colagrossi, Roberto Bertacin, Jacopo Prinetto, Stefano Silvestrini, Margherita Piccinin, Giovani Zanotti, Matteo Quirino, Andrea Pasquale, Michele Bechini

Technologies and Facilities for the AIT/AIV Phase of Nanosatellites ADCS Subsystems: HERMES as an Applicative Case

Today’s space sector is experiencing an increasing demand of small satellite platforms, ranging in the class of nanosatellites. …

Lorenzo Colaninno, Andrea Colagrossi, Paolo Lunghi, Michèle Lavagna

Lunar ISRU Ground Prototype for the Demonstration of Oxygen Extraction from Lunar Regolith

OHB Italia SpA is leading a project for the European Space Agency together with Politecnico di Milano and OHB System AG aimed at …

Isacco Pretto, Riccardo Freddi, Mario Esposito, Floriano Venditti, Alessandro Bursi, Andrea Colagrossi, Paolo Lunghi, Jacopo Prinetto, Ivan Troisi, Michèle Lavagna, Bernhard Hilber, Lutz Richter

Water Production from Lunar Regolith through Carbothermal Reduction Modelling through Ground Experiments

Space exploration is going to play a relevant role within the just started decade, with the Moon at its centre. Many activities are on …

Michelle Lavagna, Jacopo Prinetto, Andrea Colagrossi, Ivan Troisi, Alice Dottori, Paolo Lunghi

Fast and Accurate Re-Planning Tool Under Multidisciplinary Constraints Set

Flexibility in mission operations is a requirement which is rapidly gaining relevance in future missions rq implementation. Indeed, it …

Jacopo Prinetto, Paolo Lunghi, Michèle Lavagna