PRESENTATION TOPICS
Presentations will be delivered on relevant topics such as (but not necessarily limited to) the following:
- Challenges and design solutions in GNC systems of current and future missions;
- In-orbit experience on GNC systems from past missions;
- Autonomous (relative and absolute) navigation techniques and sensors for encounters with small bodies;
- Vision-based navigation for descent, landing, flybys, hovering and loitering;
- Environment modelling and impact on GNC design;
- GNC systems for entry, descent and landing;
- Control techniques for entry, descent, landing, flybys, hovering and loitering on planets and small bodies;
- Specificities of FDIR for interplanetary and small body missions;
- Modelling, simulation and testing of GNC systems for entry, descent, landing, flybys, hovering and loitering on planets and small bodies;
ROUND TABLE TOPICS
A round table is planned to conclude the workshop. The goal of this round table is to wrap-up the workshop and, building upon the information presented at the workshop and the discussion held throughout the workshop, to lay down concrete proposals to:
- Share the knowledge on GNC techniques and technologies employed in the interplanetary and small body missions community;
- Identify technological gaps that will enable upcoming and future interplanetary and small body missions;
- Foster initiatives that will help closing the identified technological gaps;
- Undertake further actions and provide inputs for roadmaps for potential inclusion into ESA’s technology R&D plans;
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Session #1: GNC for current missions
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems for missions under implementation or operations: JUICE, Bepi Colombo, Rosetta, ExoMars
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Session #2: GNC for future missions
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems for missions in their initial phases: AIM, Phobos Sample Return, Lunar landers
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Session #3: GNC technologies
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technologies: Trajectories and Guidance, Navigation engineering, Control, FDIR.
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Session #4: GNC technologies
ESA Keynote on GNC systems and related operation aspects
