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Speretta, S. (author), Uludag, M.S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Ferrario, Ivan (author)
The last years saw the diffusion of nano, pico and femto satellite missions launched by multiple entities thanks to the launch cost reduction and the electronics miniaturization. Such missions usually present limited capabilities in terms of precise orbit determination and extremely small radar and optical cross-sections. Often these missions...
conference paper 2023
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Pasqualetto Cassinis, L. (author), Park, Tae Ha (author), Stacey, Nathan (author), D'Amico, Simone (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Ahrns, Ingo (author), Sanchez-Gestido, Manuel (author)
This paper introduces an adaptive Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based Unscented Kalman Filter for the pose estimation of uncooperative spacecraft. The validation is carried out at Stanford's robotic Testbed for Rendezvous and Optical Navigation on the Satellite Hardware-In-the-loop Rendezvous Trajectories (SHIRT) dataset, which simulates...
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Di Mascio, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Monteleone, Claudio (author)
This paper describes the work carried out to extend the NOEL-V platform to include data-level parallelism (DLP) by implementing an integer subset of the RISC-V Vector Extension. The performance and resource utilization efficiency of the resulting vector processor for different levels of DLP (i.e., number of lanes) have been compared to the...
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Speretta, S. (author), Bouwmeester, J. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Di Mascio, S. (author), Uludag, M.S. (author)
The command and data handling system (CDHS) can be considered the nervous system of a satellite, providing the basic internal communication and control capabilities needed for a satellite to perform operations (either controlled by ground operators or autonomously). Such a system often interfaces directly with the satellite payload also...
book chapter 2023
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Cervone, A. (author), Topputo, F. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Turan, E. (author), Di Lizia, P. (author), Massari, M. (author), Costa, E. (author), Bertels, E. (author)
The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of different size and impact speed. Observation of the impacts on the Moon can enable thorough characterization of the Lunar meteoroid flux, which is similar to that of the Earth. While Earth-based Lunar observations are restricted by weather, geometric and illumination conditions, a...
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Bouwmeester, J. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author)
The objective of this paper is to investigate which approach would lead to more reliable CubeSats: full subsystem redundancy or improved testing. Based on data from surveys, the reliability of satellites and subsystems is estimated using a Kaplan–Meier estimator. Subsequently, a variety of reliability models is defined and their maximum...
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Pasqualetto Cassinis, L. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Ahrns, Ingo (author), Sanchez-Gestido, Manuel (author)
The estimation of the relative pose of an inactive spacecraft by an active servicer spacecraft is a critical task for close-proximity operations, such as In-Orbit Servicing and Active Debris Removal. Among all the challenges, the lack of available space images of the inactive satellite makes the on-ground validation of current monocular...
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Turan, E. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Cervone, A. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Topputo, Francesco (author), Franzese, Vittorio (author), Giordano, Carmine (author), Merisio, Gianmario (author), Di Lizia, Pierluigi (author)
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission at the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point 2 (L2) designed to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts by detecting their flashes on the Lunar farside. LUMIO can be deployed as one of the payloads in the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload System or from Artemis-2 mission to a...
conference paper 2022
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Furano, Gianluca (author), Di Mascio, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Monteleone, Claudio (author)
RISC-V is an open and modular Instruction Set Architecture(ISA) which is rapidly growing in popularity in terrestrial applications. This paper presents the place in future space embedded systems ESA's roadmap for RISC-V based processors. In order to satisfy different applications with contrasting requirements in satellite data systems, four...
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Cassano, Luca (author), Di Mascio, S. (author), Palumbo, Alessandro (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Bianchi, Giuseppe (author), Ottavi, Marco (author)
Integrated circuits employed in space applications generally have very low-volume production and high performance requirements. Therefore, the adoption of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components and Third Party Intellectual Property cores (3PIPs) is of extreme interest to make system design, implementation and deployment cost-effective and...
conference paper 2022
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Annink, Edian B. (author), Rauwerda, Gerard (author), Hakkennes, Edwin (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Di Mascio, S. (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Ottavi, Marco (author)
Soft errors in embedded systems' memories like single-event upsets and multiple-bit upsets lead to data and instruction corruption. Therefore, devices deployed in harsh environments, such as space, use fault-tolerant processors or redundancy methods to ensure critical application dependability. Another rising concern in secure, critical space...
conference paper 2022
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Topputo, F. (author), Merisio, G. (author), Cervone, A. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Turan, E. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Vennekens, Johan (author), Walker, R (author)
The Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer (LUMIO) is a CubeSat mission to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts on the lunar farside by detecting their flashes. This complements the knowledge gathered by Earth-based observations of the lunar nearside, thus synthesizing global information on the lunar meteoroid environment and...
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Di Mascio, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Monteleone, Claudio (author)
The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in terrestrial applications went from niche to widespread in a few years, thanks to relatively inexpensive hardware for both training and inference, and large datasets available. The applicability of this paradigm to space systems, where both large datasets and inexpensive hardware are not readily...
journal article 2021
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Topputo, Francesco (author), Merisio, G. (author), Giordano, G. (author), Franzese, V (author), Cervone, A. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Thorvaldsen, a. (author)
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is a mission designed to observe, quantify, and characterize the impacts of meteoroids on the lunar far side and, therefore, complement in both space and time the observations currently taken from Earth. While Earth-based lunar observations are restricted by weather, geometric and illumination...
conference paper 2021
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Cervone, A. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Topputo, Francesco (author), Merisio, G. (author)
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO), one of the two winning concepts of the SysNova Lunar CubeSats for Exploration call by ESA, is a mission designed to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts on the Lunar far side by detecting the flashes generated by the impact. While Earth-based Lunar observations are restricted by...
conference paper 2021
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Menicucci, A. (author), Cervone, A. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Topputo, Francesco (author)
The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of different size and impact speed. Observation of the impacts on the Moon can enable thorough characterization of the Lunar meteoroid flux, which is similar to that of the Earth. While Earth-based Lunar observations are restricted by weather, geometric and illumination conditions, a...
conference paper 2021
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Speretta, S. (author), Cervone, A. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Turan, E. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Bosman, B.N. (author), Topputo, Francesco (author)
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is a mission designed to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts by detecting their flashes on the lunar far side. Earth-based lunar observations are restricted by weather, geometric and illumination conditions, while a lunar orbiter can improve the detection rate of lunar meteoroid...
conference paper 2021
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Cervone, A. (author), Topputo, Francesco (author), Speretta, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Di Lizia, P. (author), Bertels, E. (author), Massari, M. (author), Franzese, V (author), Giordano, C (author)
The Earth-Moon system is constantly bombarded by meteoroids of different size and impact speed. Observation of the impacts on the Moon can enable thorough characterization of the Lunar meteoroid flux, which is similar to that of the Earth. While Earth-based Lunar observations are restricted by weather, geometric and illumination conditions, a...
conference paper 2021
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Di Mascio, S. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author), Furano, Gianluca (author), Monteleone, Claudio (author)
This paper discusses principles and techniques to evaluate processors for dependable computing in space applications. The focus is on soft errors, which dominate the failure rate of processors in space. Error, failure and propagation models from literature are selected and employed to estimate the failure rate due to soft errors in typical...
review 2021
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Broekhuizen, C.H. (author), Speretta, S. (author), Uludag, M.S. (author), van den Bos, M.F. (author), Haenen, J. (author), Menicucci, A. (author), Gill, E.K.A. (author)
In this paper, a detailed design is presented of a communications module that is designed to fit tight PocketQube design budgets but still offer performance at least comparable to commercial off-the-shelf CubeSat solutions. The communications module features extremely efficient power usage, less than 2 Watt DC for 1 Watt RF output while fitting...
conference paper 2020
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