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Towards Autonomous Spacecraft: Developing a Multi-Application Autonomy Framework.
Rel. Marcello Chiaberge. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Mechatronic Engineering (Ingegneria Meccatronica), 2025
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This thesis focuses on the development of an advanced autonomous decision-making infrastructure for ground-based satellite operations, designed to support mission planning, task scheduling and spacecraft control. The framework operates from Earth, providing both mission designers and operators with a comprehensive toolset to simulate, analyze, and optimize satellite operations. Currently, planning is largely manual, with limited support from automated tools, resulting in higher costs, especially for long-duration missions or large constellations. Implementing a fully autonomous planning framework has the potential to lower operational expenses while enhancing scientific and commercial outcomes. At its core, the system integrates a high-fidelity orbital simulator that models the satellite’s dynamics, orbital constraints, and visibility windows, enabling operators to evaluate scenarios and plan activities within feasible timeframes.
Complementing the orbital simulator, the framework includes a CP-SAT-based task scheduler that models resource availability, operational constraints, and task priorities to generate optimized mission plans according to a custom objective function
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