Pose Estimation Challenge

Pose estimation is a key for future on-orbit servicing and debris removal missions. Join the latest Kelvins competition!

PROBA-V SR Challenge

New competition challenges researchers to fuse images from ESA's PROBA-V satellite to push resolution to new heights.

Acta Futura 11

The special issue of Acta Futura on the results of GTOC9 is now online, check all the results from participating teams.

Star Identification

New star identification algorithms were produced and benchmarked during a Kelvins competition.

Robot learns "to see"

During an experiment performed on board of the International Space Station (ISS) a small drone successfully taught itself to see distances with one eye.

Acta Futura 10

The special issue of Acta Futura on Space Architecture is now online, check all of its visionary papers.

Deep Space Learning

Visual landing can be greatly enhanced making use of deep learning techniques as found by pioneering ACT research.

The Lost P function

A forgotten theorem from Weierstrass helps boosting Trajectory design and Planetary Science.

Bees land like spacecraft

Experiments on bees revealed they use time-to-contact to land, just as previously proposed and studied by ACT scientists for spacecraft and Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)

ACT Research Project of the day

Light absorption enhancement with bio-inspired nanostructures01 Mar 2019 Nature has developed several mechanisms to harvest light such as through the nanostructured anti-reflective surfaces of moth-eyes and the light-trapping structures of the diatom frustules. Such structures might inhibit the potential to improve the light absorption in solar cells.

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