ESA Advanced Concepts Team

🔔 We are happy to open the call for papers of the first edition of #SPAICE2024: the conference on “Artificial Intelligence in and for Space” organised by the European Space Agency. With the aim to bring together researchers and practitioners across disciplines and application domains, we invite everyone who is excited about the future of artificial intelligence in space to join us in this endeavour. We are looking for contributions covering the whole spectrum of AI techniques and space domain applications, with an emphasis on enabling cross-disciplinary exchange. Thus, whether you work in artificial intelligence, space, or both – we invite you to submit a paper and join us in the first iteration of #SPAICE2024. Papers submitted to the conference have a maximum length of 4 pages (excluding references) and will go through a single round of peer review. For more information, see our webpage: https://lnkd.in/eMq5ECvK The most important information at a glance: 🚀 Conference website: https://spaice.esa.int/  ⏳ Paper submission deadline: 19. May 2024  🗓 Conference dates: 15. – 19. September 2024  📌 Conference location: European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), UK #SPAICE2024 seeks to establish a scientific playground, an open space for the exchange of challenges and ideas across domains, where the intersection of communities and competences promises to provide valuable insights, learning opportunities and a fertile ground for novel ideas and trends to emerge. We are looking forward to seeing you all there! #AI4Space ⁠#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Space #Aerospace #Conference #SPAICE2024 #ESA #ESAACT #NASA #MachineLearning #DataScience #esascience #esa_eo

🛰 Could future space missions utilize entirely neural-based on-board optimal guidance and control systems? ⏱ Together with the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab, TUDelft), ESA Advanced Concepts Team set out to answer this question in the latest issue of the Science Robotics journal, which features our work on 'Optimality Principles in Spacecraft Neural Guidance and Control'. 🪐 We're excited to highlight the progress in developing end-to-end neural architectures for tasks such as interplanetary mission guidance, planetary landings, and close-proximity operations. We propose advanced neural models capable of learning optimal strategies and greatly improve the autonomy and efficiency of spacecraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Moreover, we explore drone racing as an excellent test environment for these architectures. 💻 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eZr22XGS 📖 And for the details about our recent work, check out our freshly published review in Science Robotics: https://lnkd.in/gH2KYjx9

📣 Extended deadline for SPAICE 2024 📣 Following a number of requests, we have extended the deadline for SPAICE 2024 until *midnight (00:00) on 27 May 2024*! Keep an eye on the news page of SPAICE for announcements: https://lnkd.in/e2RGDmYK

📣 More updates about European Space Agency - ESA's SPAICE conference! 💰 Registration fees are now on our webpage: Students: 150€ / 200€ (early / late) Regular: 250€ / 300€ (early / late) 🤗 More information about registration and conference details (e.g., the dinner venue) will follow soon! 🔔 There is still plenty of time until the paper and travel grant deadline (19th of May 2024), so if you haven't already, consider submitting to SPAICE! More infos: https://lnkd.in/e2RGDmYK #SPAICE2024 #AI #Space #Conference #ESA

Last week, I had the pleasure to attend the #29th #International #Symposium on #Space #Flight #Dynamics, at European Space Agency - ESA - #ESOC in Darmstadt and present two of our works. It was great to be able to connect with #flight #dynamics and #mission #analysis colleagues from across the globe. Here is a glimpse of the research we presented: * "Stochastic Continuation of Trajectories in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem via Differential Algebra", link: https://lnkd.in/ekYbhPSj. * "Computing Low-Thrust Transfers in the Asteroid Belt, a Comparison Between Astrodynamical Manipulations and a Machine Learning Approach", link: https://lnkd.in/e7BucWWJ; with database also available on Zenodo: https://lnkd.in/eYCMTmmQ. * "Breaking Traditions: Introducing a Surrogate Primer Vector in non Keplerian Dynamics", link: https://lnkd.in/eT6dQnBq. * "Global Optimization for Trajectory Design via Invariant Manifolds in the Earth-Moon Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem", link: https://lnkd.in/ezTku6TG * "NeuralODEs for VLEO Simulations: Introducing thermoNET for Thermosphere Modelling", link: https://lnkd.in/eWhKUeYR As usual, we have open-sourced the code for most cases. A big thank you to all my co-authors Nicola Baresi, David Lloyd, Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani, Laurent Beauregard, Emmanuel Blazquez, Flavio Tagliaferri. Surrey Space Centre, ESA Advanced Concepts Team #MissionAnalysis #Astrodynamics #Machine #Learning

Last week I was invited to present a poster of some of my work from the ESA Advanced Concepts Team at the International Conference on Energy from Space alongside the ESA SOLARIS team. The event was an incredible experience, with a large number of experts from all of the fields which are required to work together to make Space Based Solar Power a reality. #energyfromspace #sbsp #spacebasedsolarpower

📢 Preparations for SPAICE are in full swing, and we have some exciting updates to share with you! 📜 SPAICE has partnered with IAA Acta Astronautica and Springer Astrodynamics to publish two special issues on AI and space! https://lnkd.in/eMq5ECvK 💬 We are excited to announce our keynote speakers, who are conducting research covering a variety of AI domains and space applications: - Angela Schoellig (TUM) - Ioana Ciucă (Australian National University) - Jürgen Schmidhuber (IDSIA) - Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Ryan McClelland (NASA) https://lnkd.in/evfyE89K 🧑🎓 Students (BSc, MSc and PhD) can now apply for sponsorship from the ESA Space Academy to attend SPAICE! The sponsorship covers registration fees and travel / accommodation expenses. The application deadline is the 19 May 2024. https://lnkd.in/e3GDjiZp ⏳ There is still plenty of time to submit a paper to SPAICE and join us in September at ECSAT in the UK (submission deadline: 19 May 2024). https://lnkd.in/ecgw5rQ2 ✅ The registration process and the fee structure for the conference are being finalised. We will publish them on the SPAICE website as soon as they are available, so keep an eye on our news page: https://lnkd.in/e2RGDmYK Looking forward to seeing you in September!🗓️

🥁 ESA's SPAICE conference is proud to welcome Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber as a new distinguished keynote speaker who will join the conference remotely! 🤖 Professor Schmidhuber has made innumerable contributions not only in the field of #AI, but also #robotics, complexity theory and art theory. Examples include groundbreaking models such as the long short-term memory (#LSTM), pioneering work on very deep models (the #HighwayNet), numerious evolutionary algorithms as well as formal models of creativity and art. We are excited for the opportunity to hear Professor Schmidhuber's vision for the future of the nascent field of AI in space! 🎤 With this, we have five amazing keynote speakers confirmed for the #SPAICE2024 #conference, bridging topic-wise from #AI to #space and beyond: Angela Schoellig (Technische Universität München) Ioana Ciucă (The Australian National University) Jürgen Schmidhuber (IDSIA USI-SUPSI / KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)) Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Ryan McClelland (NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 🚀 For more information and news updates, see the conference webpage: https://spaice.esa.int/ #AI4Space #ML4Space #DataScience #ESA #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning  European Space Agency - ESA

📢 Updates for the "SPAICE: AI in and for Space" conference! 🤗 The preparations for #SPAICE2024 are in full swing and we have some exciting updates to share with you! 1. In collaboration with IAA Acta Astronautica and Springer Astrodynamics, we will publish two special issues on AI and space as part of SPAICE! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMq5ECvK 2. We are excited to share our first confirmed keynote speakers, covering a variety of AI backgrounds and space applications: Ryan McClelland (NASA), Dr. Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Prof. Angela Schoellig (TUM), and Dr. Ioana Ciucă (Australian National University). 👉 https://lnkd.in/evfyE89K 3. Students (BSc, MSc, PhD) can apply now for sponsorship by the European Space Agency - ESA Space Academy to attend SPAICE, covering registration fees and travel / accomodation costs! Deadline for applications is the 19. May 2024. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3GDjiZp 📬 We regularly post updates on our news page: https://lnkd.in/e2RGDmYK ⏳ There is still plenty of time to submit your contribution to SPAICE and join us in September at ECSAT in the UK (submission deadline: 19. May 2024). #Conference #AI4Space #ML4Space #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DataScience #Space #ESA #SPAICE2024

📢 SpOC 3.0 started! ❗We just released the three challenges of this year's Space Optimization Competition (SpOC), co-organised with the GECCO 2024 conference (https://lnkd.in/ed8Qnz2C). 🤸♀️ Try your skills by mastering two out of these three challenges, with topics covering graph theory, mission analysis, and robotics! As in last year's SpOC, although the challenges are strongly tied to real applications in the space area, no domain expertise (apart from optimisation / AI / coding / math) is required! Also, to participate in SpOC, you do not have to participate in GECCO. 🌐 You can find all information, challenge descriptions, supporting code, and forums to contact us or other SpOC participants on our github repository: https://lnkd.in/dhDWRCTy 🖱 To submit solutions, visit ESA's optimize platform: https://lnkd.in/eA5xE8Qt 🏆 May the best win! #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Optimisation #Space #AI4Space #ML4Space #EvolutionaryComputation #GeneticAlgorithms #Algorithms #Evolution #CS #ComputerScience #Coding #Competition #Mathematics #Megastructures #SpOC #GECCO #Constellations #Interferometry #Assembly #MissionAnalysis #Robotics #Graphs #GraphTheory European Space Agency - ESA ESA Advanced Concepts Team ESA Technology