Optimal feedback guidance for low-trust orbit insertion using adaptive critic based neural networks for minimizing the satellite’s cost performance, Funded by NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium and the University of Missouri-Rolla Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program,
Publications:
“Orbit Transfer Optimization” S. Esteban, S.N. Balakrishnan, Published: 1999 NASA-Missouri Space Grant Consortium Conference proceedings
Awards: Best Honors Project by the University of Missouri-Rolla School of Engineering, for the academic year 1998-1999.
Inertia-free attitude control laws for spacecraft (with the collaboration of the University of Michigan, Prof. Dennis S. Bernstein)
Publications:
“A Comparison of Nonlinear PI and PID Inertia-free Spacecraft Attitude Control Laws “,Marc Camblor, Avishai Weiss, Gerardo Cruz, Yousaf Rahman, Sergio Esteban, Ilya Kolmanovsky, and Dennis S. Bernstein.. Chapter de “Advances in Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control”DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44785-7_27, ISBN: 978-3-662-44784-0, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp 517-541, 2015.
“A Numerical Comparison of Inertia-Free Attitude Control Laws for a Spacecraft with a Discrete Flexible Model.”,Marc Camblor, Antai Xie, Sergio Esteban, Taeyoung Lee, Dennis S. Bernstein, Submitted to: AIAA Guid. Nav. Contr. Conf., Boston, MA, August 2013, Chapter DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-4562. ISBN: 978-1-62410-224-0
“Retrospective Cost Adaptive Spacecraft Attitude Control Using Control Moment Gyros”, M. Camblor, G. Cruz, S. Esteban, F. Leve, D. Bernstein, Accepted to the American Control Conference (ACC), June 4th-6th, 2014 Portland, OR, pp 2492 - 2497, ISSN :0743-1619, Print ISBN:978-1-4799-3272-6, DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859136
"Control de actitud de satélites utilizando estrategias
de control adaptativo basadas en coste retrospectivo
y matrices del grupo SO(3) para satélites actuados
con expulsores de masa y giróscopos simples
(Spacecraft attitude control using retrospective cost adaptive control
and SO(3) controllers under thrusters and CMGs actuation)", Marc Camblor Chimenos, Thesis Defense, Advisor :Sergio Esteban