Advanced Concepts Team
Our mission is to monitor and perform research on advanced space concepts and technologies, preparing ESA for any disruptive change to come.
Our research
Advanced Materials
Artificial Intelligence
Bio-Engineering
Biomimetics
Earth System Sciences
Energy Systems
Fundamental Physics
Habitats
Informatics
Complexity Science
Mission Analysis
Propulsion
Artificial Intelligence
Geodesy of irregular small bodies via neural density fields: geodesyNets
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Bio-Engineering
Mitochondrial processes within cells sourced from hibernators and non-hibernators in altered gravity
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Complexity Science
Social psychology of past polar exploration
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Multidisciplinary
Inverse design of nanostructured optical solar reflectors
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Multidisciplinary
Spiking Neural Networks for onboard Artificial Intelligence
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Multidisciplinary
Quantum information processing
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Artificial Intelligence
Vision-based Neural Scene Representations for Spacecrafts
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Multidisciplinary
Semi-supervised learning for scene classification
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Multidisciplinary
Multi-view satellite photogrammetry with Neural Radiance Fields
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Multidisciplinary
Accurate and efficient propagation via the Taylor method
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Mission Analysis
Autonomous exploration of an exoplanetary system in the context of a robotic interstellar mission
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Mission Analysis
Study of the motion of charged particles in planetary magnetospheres using Differential Algebra
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Biomimetics
Event-based vision in space
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Mission Analysis
Uncertainty propagation in approach GN&C using Differential Algebra
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Habitats
Moon fibres
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Habitats
Functionally graded materials for space structures
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Habitats
Basalt fibre reinforced geopolymer
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Multidisciplinary
G&CNets - On-Board Optimal Control of a Quadcopter
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Habitats
Robotic manufacturing of fibrous structures in space
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