Autonomous Robust Guidance and Optimization for Spaceflight Laboratory

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STARGATE

Landing on other worlds is easy to imagine and brutally hard to engineer. STARGATE is ARGOS Lab's flagship effort to make autonomous, fuel-optimal, robust guidance the default for the next generation of landers and reusable launch vehicles.

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End-to-End Six-DoF Entry, Descent and Landing

Exploration of Sequential Convex Optimization-based techniques for End-to-end 6-degree-of-freedom Entry, Descent, and Landing rapid prototyping of guidance solutions.

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Pseudospectral Multiple-Shooting Convex Optimization

Combination of Pseudospectral Collocation within a Multiple-Shooting Sequential Convex Optimization framework to rapidly and reliably solve challenging Optimal Control Problems.

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HYbrid-Digital Rocket Architecture Build-up

Implementation of high-fidelity numerical simulations able to represent the 6-degree-of-freedom Vertical Take-off and Landing of the selected rocket prototype.

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STARGATE

Landing on other worlds is easy to imagine and brutally hard to engineer. STARGATE is ARGOS Lab's flagship effort to make autonomous, fuel-optimal, robust guidance the default for the next generation of landers and reusable launch vehicles.

ARGOS Lab aims at conceiving, developing and validating advanced G&C algorithms and methodologies for space systems. The lab has been founded at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Bologna and funded by the European Research Council through the ERC-CoG 2024 grant "STARGATE".

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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Via Luciano Montaspro 97

Forlì Campus, Italy

44.200889° N, 12.064129° E

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