Abstract Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
for aerospace applications have brought about new opportunities for the fast-growing …

The growing interest in Artificial Intelligence is pervading several domains of technology and
robotics research. Only recently has the space community started to investigate deep …

The path planning of stratospheric airships holds significant potential for high altitude
platform station applications. However, current research is confronted with certain …

The growing ferment towards enhanced autonomy on-board spacecrafts is driving the
research of leading space agencies. Concurrently, the rapid developments of Artificial …

In recent years, space research has shifted heavily its focus towards enhanced autonomy on-
board spacecrafts for on-orbit servicing activities (OOS). OOS and proximity operations …

This review paper presents a comprehensive evaluation and forward‐looking perspective
on the underexplored topic of servicing target objects using spacecraft swarms. Such targets …

The space community is moving forward with the development of in-orbit servicing and
removal technologies to enable the circular economy in space and improve future space …

This paper investigates the problem of on-orbit spacecraft inspection using a single free-
flying deputy spacecraft, equipped with an optical sensor, whose controller is a neural …

Autonomy is increasingly crucial in space missions due to several factors driving the
exploration and utilization of space. In the meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence methods begin to …

The trial and error approach of reinforcement learning (RL) results in high performance
across many complex tasks, but it can also lead to unsafe behavior. Run time assurance …