Deep-space Astrodynamics Research & Technology Group
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PROJECTS
Discover the projects in which our group is involved.
EXTREMA
Engineering Extremely Rare Events in Astrodynamics
MILANI
A 6U CubeSat visiting the Didymos system with Hera and Juventas.
Named after Andrea Milani (1948-2018)
LUMIO
LUMIO (Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer) is a CubeSat mission to a halo orbit at Earth–Moon L2 that shall observe, quantify, and characterise meteoroid impacts on the Lunar farside.
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The DART Group is involved in many other project. Check out the dedicated page to discover all the activities.
RESEARCH
The DART team is commited to research in the space engineering field. Our research interests involve autonomous navigation, guidance and control for deep-space CubeSats and satellites. Moreover, we are interested in interplanetary CubeSat missions with partners and institutions.
DISCOVER MORETEAM
The group is made up by one Full Professor, three PostDoc researchers, five Research Fellows, eight PhD Students and is enriched by a number of international visiting PhD and external collaborators.
DISCOVER MORELatest Publications
Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation at Small Bodies Combining Centroiding and Visual Odometry
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Control-Constrained Indirect Optimization for Low-Thrust Trajectories with Duty Cycles
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Development and validation of a physically based rendering methodology for celestial bodies
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