2nd ESA BLAST Workshop

Wednesday 9 Apr 2025, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Einstein Conference Room (ESA-ESTEC)

We are pleased to invite you to the 2^nd workshop on Building Launcher Autonomy and Safety through New Technologies (BLAST), to be held only in-person on:

Wednesday, 9^th April 2025

at ESA-ESTEC (no video link available)

 

The objective of this 2^nd edition is:

• To provide a networking opportunity for the European launcher GNC community
• To gather inputs that will be used in the preparation of an ESA activity on the topic of Verification & Validation (V&V) for launchers

The list of techniques and applications covered in the workshop can be found here.

 

Structure of the workshop

The BLAST workshop is structured in an interactive and dynamic fashion to foster discussion, featuring:

• Formal presentations by invited speakers
• Technical splinter workgroup discussions 
• Mini-poster sessions: if you have a poster on your experience in the area of V&V, feel free to bring it and we will display it during the event!

For additional information, please see the agenda tab.

 

Conditions for participation

Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and subject to the following conditions:

• Access to the workshop is restricted to nationals of ESA Member States with permanent affiliation to organisations based in ESA Member States
• Registration will be subject to approval: please wait for the approval confirmation before planning your trip!
• Spaces are unfortunately limited, therefore:
  • Please register only if you are sure that you can make it to the workshop
  • Registrations will be processed on a first-come first-served basis, so do not delay in registering
  • Students are encouraged to participate; however, their registration is subject to seat availability, with priority given to industry and academia professionals

Registration is now closed

BLAST2-TechniquesApplications-final.pdf

Welcome / Networking / Coffee

Opening session (ESA)

Invited presentations (UC3M, TU Dresden, SENER)

1 V&V Experiences for Launch Vehicles within Robust Control Framework

Speaker: Andrés Marcos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

2 Robustness Analysis for Flight through Periods of Instability

Speaker: Harald Pfifer (TU Dresden)

3 IQClab: Sensitivity and Robustness Analysis Tools for Space Transportation Systems

Speaker: Joost Veenman (SENER)

10:40 Delay margin

Splinter: From autocoding to rapid PIL and HIL

Splinter: IQC and LMI-based analysis

Splinter: Sampling-based worst-case analysis

Splinter: Surrogate modelling

Splinter: Data-driven methods for V&V

Splinter: Deterministic & stochastic mu analysis

Splinter: Nonlinear techniques

Splinter: Reachability analysis

Lunch

Networking / Mini-poster session / Coffee

Invited presentations (DEIMOS, Aalborg U., GMV, ENAC)

4 The "Smart Launcher Enablers" Project: Results and Status

Speakers: João Pedro Belfo (Indra Deimos), Aitor Gomez (Aalborg University)

5 V&V of Launcher GNC at GMV

Speaker: Pedro Lourenço (GMV)

6 Formal Verification of Optimisation Algorithms: an Overview of Three Different Approaches

Speaker: Pierre-Loïc Garoche (ENAC)

14:55 Delay margin

Splinter: Systems with adaptive elements

Splinter: Systems with hybrid navigation

Splinter: Systems with neural networks

Splinter: Systems with optimisation-in-the-loop

Closing session (ESA)

Networking / Mini-poster session / Farewell