12–13 Nov 2015
ESTEC
Europe/Amsterdam timezone
"Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Exploration Missions"

Scientific Programme


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; 

 

  • Session #1: GNC for current missions

    Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems for missions under implementation or operations: JUICE, Bepi Colombo, Rosetta, ExoMars

  • Session #2: GNC for future missions

    Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems for missions in their initial phases: AIM, Phobos Sample Return, Lunar landers

  • Session #3: GNC technologies

    Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technologies: Trajectories and Guidance, Navigation engineering, Control, FDIR.

  • Session #4: GNC technologies

    ESA Keynote on GNC systems and related operation aspects