News:

• Nov 2024: Morad Nazari received the university-wide Industry Catalyst Award (in recognition of successfully fostering partnerships with industry and securing the highest amount of external funding from industry or businesses during the 2023-2024 fiscal year).

• Sep 2024: Brennan McCann will present the invited talk “Circular restricted full three-body problem with rigid-body spacecraft dynamics in binary asteroid systems” at Cassyni Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Seminar Series.

• Sep 2024: Matthew Wittal has won two NASA awards recently: Trailblazer Award (for leading work in collaboration with JAXA regarding mass property estimation and the development of their HTV-XG vehicle for Gateway, bridging the gap between our theoretical development and the hardware) and Team Award (for the contribution to the Gateway’s Distributed Control team). Congratulations Matt!

• Aug 2024: DCSL contributed 5 papers at AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (2 presentations by Herman Gunter, 1 presentation by Marco Fagetti, 1 presentation by Matthew Wittal, and 1 presentation in collaboration) in Broomfield, CO.

• Aug 2024: DCSL appears on ERAU news. Thank you Michaela Jarvis and Dr. Eduardo Rojas for providing that news article and recommending our laboratory!

• Jul 2024: The manuscript “Mass property estimation on TSE(3) via unscented Kalman filter using RCS t hrusters” by McCann, Fagetti, Nazari, Wittal, and Smith is to appear in Acta Astronautica.

• Jun 2024: It was a pleasure to visit Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano and present our research on on-manifold dynamics formulation and state and parameter estimation of space vehicles. Thanks to Ethan Burnett and Francesco Topputo (Politecnico di Milano) and Stefano Primatesta and Elisa Capello (Politecnico di Torino) for arranging these seminars and their hospitality!

• May 2024: Morad Nazari presented DCSL’s research at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mobility and Robotic Systems and Guidance and Control Systems groups.

• Apr 2024: Junpeng Zhou received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award of the year.

• Apr 2024: The manuscript “Numerical Approaches for Constrained and Unconstrained, Static Optimization on the Special Euclidean Group SE(3)” by Brennan McCann, Morad Nazari, and Christopher Petersen is published in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

• Feb 2024: Matthew Wittal presented at 46th Rocky Mountain AAS GN&C Conference, Breckenridge, CO.

• Jan 2024: The manuscript “Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem with Rigid-Body Spacecraft Dynamics in Binary Asteroid Systems” by Brennan McCann, Annika Anderson, Morad Nazari, and David Canales is to appear in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

• Jan 2024: Brennan McCann started a permanent position at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

• Jan 2024: DCSL presented 3 papers at AIAA SciTech (2 presentations by Brennan McCann and 1 presentation by Matthew Wittal) in Orlando, FL.

• Nov 2023: The manuscript “Utilizing the Geometric Mechanics Framework to Predict Attitude in a Full Ephemeris Model of the Cislunar Region” by Annika Anderson, Brennan McCann, David Canales, and Morad Nazari is to appear in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.

• Nov 2023: Brennan McCann successfully defended his PhD dissertation defense.

• Nov 2023: The brief article “Estimation of Rigid Body Inertia Properties with Slosh Dynamics on a Special Euclidean Group” by Morad Nazari, Brennan S. McCann, Marco Fagetti, Matthew M. Wittal, Michael Elmore, and Jeffrey D. Smith is available online at SIAM News (https://sinews.siam.org/; Direct link to the article: https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/estimation-of-rigid-body-inertia-properties-with-slosh-dynamics-on-a-special-euclidean-group).

• Oct 2023: Brennan McCann presented a talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ on rigid body pose optimization on nonlinear manifolds.

• Aug 2023: DCSL presented 6 papers at AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (2 presentations by Marco Fagetti, 3 presentations by Brennan McCann, and 1 presentation by Matthew Wittal) in Big Sky, MT.

• Jul 2023: Morad Nazari gave an invited talk at SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT23), 2023.

• Jul 2023: Morad Nazari was assigned as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics & AI.

• Jun 2023: The manuscript “Framework for the Full N-Body Problem in SE(3) and its Reduction to the Circular Restricted Full Three-Body Problem” by Morad Nazari, David Canales, Brennan McCann, Eric Butcher, and Kathleen Howell is to appear in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.

• May 2023: It was a pleasure to visit NASA KSC and present our research [Development of an SE(3)-based Rigid Body Pose Estimation Scheme for Unknown Moments of Inertia] for Gateway Deep Space Logistics team. Thanks to Matthew Wittal, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, and their colleagues for arranging this visit and their hospitality!

• Apr 2023: The manuscript “Rigid Body Non-Certainty Equivalence Adaptive Control on the Tangent Bundle of SE(3)” by Dongeun Seo, Morad Nazari, and Ehsan Arabi is to appear in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

• Apr 2023: Brennan McCann received the Outstanding PhD Student Award.

• Apr 2023: Morad Nazari received the Graduate Teaching Award of the year.

• Apr 2023: DCSL’s two abstracts (one in collaboration with NASA and a.i. Solutions) are accepted at International Astronautical Congress to be presented in October in Baku, Azerbaijan.

• Apr 2023: Experimental testbed project to be started in early May (Marco Fagetti, Junpeng Zhou, and Sagar Sarkar will be working on this joint project).

• Apr 2023: Junpeng Zhou and Sagar Sarkar joined the team to work on the experimental testbed project funded by Air Force.

• Apr 2023: Marco Fagetti successfully defended his MS thesis “Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis and Control of Space Vehicles with Flexible Structures” and continues his education towards PhD.

• Feb 2023: Rahil Golakiya started a permanent position at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as GNC engineer.

• Feb 2023: Our abstract on Estimation of rigid body inertia properties with slosh dynamics on special Euclidean group is accepted at SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications to be held in July in Philadelphia, PA.

• Jan 2023: DCSL contributed to 4 papers (3 presentations by Brennan McCann) in AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Austin, TX.

• Jan 2023: DCSL presented 3 papers at AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum (2 presentations by Brennan McCann and 1 presentation by Matthew Wittal) in National Harbor, MD.

• Jan 2023: Brennan McCann is admitted to the JPL Spring 2023 internship program.

• Nov 2022: Brennan McCann presented his inequality constraint paper at ASME/IMECE (in collaboration with Prof. Firdaus Udwadia from USC) in Cincinnati, OH

• Aug 2022: DCSL presented 4 papers (2 presentations by Brennan McCann, 1 presentation by Morad Nazari, and 1 presentation by Matthew Wittal) at AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Charlotte, NC.