no code implementations • 18 Dec 2020 • Leonard Vance, Jekan Thangavelautham
The exploration of small body asteroids provides direct access to the primitive building blocks of our solar system.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Robotics
no code implementations • 19 Sep 2020 • Jekan Thangavelautham, Yinan Xu
In this paper, we explore the use of templates and task cues to improve group performance further and minimize antagonism.
no code implementations • 3 Feb 2020 • Ravi teja Nallapu, Yinan Xu, Abraham Marquez, Tristan Schuler, Jekan Thangavelautham
After an event is detected, a spacecraft swarm can be deployed from Earth to flyby past the visitor.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2019 • Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham
These environments are time capsules into early formation of the solar system and will provide vital clues of how our early solar system gave way to the current planets and moons.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2018 • Steve Morad, Ravi teja Nallapu, Himangshu Kalita, Byon Kwon, Vishnu Reddy, Roberto Furfaro, Erik Asphaug, Jekan Thangavelautham
The spacecraft would operate autonomously using a smart camera with vision algorithms to detect, track and report of objects.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2017 • Pranay Gankidi, Jekan Thangavelautham
However, embedded systems onboard planetary rovers and spacecraft rarely implement learning algorithms due to the constraints faced in the field, like processing power, chip size, convergence rate and costs due to the need for radiation hardening.