no code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • Brian Gaudet, Kris Drozd, Roberto Furfaro
We use deep reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize a weapons to target assignment (WTA) policy for multi-vehicle hypersonic strike against multiple targets.
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Zhengnan Xie, Alice Saebom Kwak, Enfa George, Laura W. Dozal, Hoang Van, Moriba Jah, Roberto Furfaro, Peter Jansen
Space situational awareness typically makes use of physical measurements from radar, telescopes, and other assets to monitor satellites and other spacecraft for operational, navigational, and defense purposes.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2021 • Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro
We develop an integrated guidance and control system that in conjunction with a stabilized seeker and landing site detection software can achieve precise and safe planetary landing.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2021 • Andrea Scorsoglio, Roberto Furfaro
In this paper VisualEnv, a new tool for creating visual environment for reinforcement learning is introduced.
no code implementations • 1 Oct 2021 • Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro
An adaptive guidance system suitable for the terminal phase trajectory of a hypersonic strike weapon is optimized using reinforcement meta learning.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2021 • Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro
We apply a reinforcement meta-learning framework to optimize an integrated and adaptive guidance and flight control system for an air-to-air missile.
no code implementations • 30 Jul 2021 • Brian Gaudet, Kris Drozd, Ryan Meltzer, Roberto Furfaro
We use Reinforcement Meta Learning to optimize an adaptive guidance system suitable for the approach phase of a gliding hypersonic vehicle.
no code implementations • 15 May 2020 • Enrico Schiassi, Carl Leake, Mario De Florio, Hunter Johnston, Roberto Furfaro, Daniele Mortari
The proposed method is a synergy of two recently developed frameworks for solving problems involving parametric DEs, 1) the Theory of Functional Connections, TFC, and the Physics-Informed Neural Networks, PINN.
1 code implementation • 18 Apr 2020 • Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro, Richard Linares, Andrea Scorsoglio
We use Reinforcement Meta-Learning to optimize an adaptive integrated guidance, navigation, and control system suitable for exoatmospheric interception of a maneuvering target.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2019 • Brian Gaudet, Richard Linares, Roberto Furfaro
This allows the deployed policy to generalize well to novel asteroid characteristics, which we demonstrate in our experiments.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2019 • Brian Gaudet, Richard Linares, Roberto Furfaro
Finally, we suggest a concept of operations for asteroid close proximity maneuvers that is compatible with the guidance system.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2019 • Brian Gaudet, Roberto Furfaro, Richard Linares
We present a novel guidance law that uses observations consisting solely of seeker line of sight angle measurements and their rate of change.
Systems and Control
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • Brian Gaudet, Richard Linares, Roberto Furfaro
We also demonstrate the ability of a RL meta-learning optimized policy to implement a guidance law using observations consisting of only Doppler radar altimeter readings in a Mars landing environment, and LIDAR altimeter readings in an asteroid landing environment, thus integrating guidance and navigation.
Systems and Control
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2019 • Brian Gaudet, Richard Linares, Roberto Furfaro
Instead, we learn a mapping from the first observation in an episode to the hidden state, allowing the trained model to immediately produce accurate predictions.
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2018 • Brian Gaudet, Richard Linares, Roberto Furfaro
The latter requires both a navigation system capable of estimating the lander's state in real-time and a guidance and control system that can map the estimated lander state to a commanded thrust for each lander engine.
Systems and Control
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.