Research
Four connected areas for safer, more autonomous aerospace systems.
CIRO combines astrodynamics, optimal guidance and control, space situational awareness, orbital sustainability, and trustworthy scientific machine learning.
Research portfolio
From first principles to mission capability.
Select an area to explore its research topics, methods, and complete figure galleries.
Astro
Astrodynamics
Trajectory design, constellation geometry, and dynamical environments around planets and small bodies.
GNC
Optimal guidance and control
Open- and closed-loop neural optimal control, inspection missions, landing, and asteroid proximity operations.
SSA
Space situational awareness & orbital sustainability
Orbit determination, object characterization, environmental evolution, and orbital capacity.
SciML
Scientific machine learning & trustworthy AI
Interpretable learning-enabled controllers, formal stability analysis, and certification.