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The Advanced Concepts Team
Welcome to the Advanced Concepts Team Homepage

The aim of the ESA Advanced Concepts Team is to perform, monitor and foster research on advanced space systems, innovative concepts and working methods, in particular by engaging in collaborative research with academia.

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Release of the new Ariadna Call for Ideas CfI 2012/01

24 Jan 2012 The ACT released the first Ariadna Call for Ideas for 2012. We are looking forward to receive research ideas on wireless power transmission.

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Release of the new Ariadna Call for Proposals CfP 2012/01

24 Jan 2012 The ACT released the first Ariadna Call for Proposals for 2012. This particular call encompasses some fascinating research ideas on bio-inspiration from plants for space technologies as well as on a novel propulsion concept, efficient vision algorithms and on the systematic study of gaits artificially evolved in diverse environments.

Acta Futura: issue 5 published

18 January 2012 We are pleased to announce that the fifth issue of our on-line peer-reviewed scientific journal "Acta Futura" (the pink issue) has been published. The issue is devoted to revised versions of the IJCAI "AI in Space" workshop proceedings. You may download the full issue here, or check our database for single papers here.

PyGMO, V1.0.0 is released!
Metaheuristics meets science

28 November 2011 The open source PaGMO/PyGMO scientific library has been released! Version 1.0.0 comes in the form of a c++ library (PaGMO), or Python 2.7 module (PyGMO) and is compatible with all major hardware platforms. PaGMO/PyGMO allows for massively parallel engineering optimization. It has been sucessfully used in the past to design interplanetary low-thrust trajectories, as well as microstructred thermal radiators or to process ionospheric data. A list of optimization algorithms included in version 1.0.0 can be found here. They all are made parallel via PyGMO's generalized island model, a coarse-grained parallelization technology the Advanced Concepts Team developed in past years.

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