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LecturerTopputo Francesco
QualificationFull professor full time
Belonging DepartmentDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali
Scientific-Disciplinary SectorIIND-01/E - Aerospace Equipment And Systems
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List of publications and reserach products for the year 2025 (Show all details | Hide all details)
Type Title of the Publicaiton/Product
Conference proceedings
A Homotopic Convex Optimization Approach for Trajectory Design in Multi-Body Models (Show >>)
A Monomial Method for Nonlinear Optimization in Astrodynamics (Show >>)
Computation of Invariant Tori in the Hill Restricted Four-Body Problem via Collocation (Show >>)
Enhanced Full Visual Slam for Close Proximity Exploration of Asteroids Combining Incremental Smoothing with Filtering Techniques (Show >>)
FUTURE (Fully aUtonomous feaTUre Recognition planetary Explorer) - Revolutionizing Nanosatellite Autonomy through Visual Navigation (Show >>)
Goal-Oriented Guidance Under Uncertainties for Small Bodies Proximity Operations (Show >>)
Goal-Oriented Trajectories About Minor Bodies Using Sequential Convex Programming: a Deterministic Approach (Show >>)
Goal-Oriented Trajectories About Minor Bodies Using Sequential Convex Programming: a Stochastic Approach (Show >>)
LUMIO Cubesat: Current Status and Lessons Learnt (so Far) (Show >>)
Low-Energy Transfers to Quasi-Halo Orbit in a Sun-Perturbed Environment (Show >>)
Multiple Interior-Point Constraints for Power-Limited Operational-Compliant Trajectories (Show >>)
Optimal Three-Impulse Lunar Transfers in High Fidelity Models (Show >>)
Optimization of Weak Stability Boundary Transfers Under Uncertainty: the LUMIO Mission Case (Show >>)
The EXTREMA Simulation Hub: Advancements in the Development of an Integrated Hardware-In-the-loop Facility for Autonomous Cubesats GNC Technologies (Show >>)
The Hera Milani Mission (Show >>)
The Role of Autonomy in Close Proximity Operations Around Asteroid (99942) Apophis (Show >>)
What if Star Trackers Were Navigation Cameras? (Show >>)
Zodiac Pioneer: an Interplanetary Small Satellite Platform for Asteroid Reconnaissance (Show >>)
Journal Articles
Ephemeris refinement of low-energy Earth–Moon transfers via an astrodynamic model chain (Show >>)
Rapid Nonlinear Convex Guidance Using a Monomial Method (Show >>)


List of publications and reserach products for the year 2024 (Show all details | Hide all details)
Type Title of the Publicaiton/Product
Abstract in Atti di convegno
Hardware-Accelerated Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Processing Algorithm for the ESA Hera Mission (Show >>)
Patents
Satellite Artificial State Estimation Sensor and Method and Artificial Satellite (Show >>)
Conference proceedings
A Convex Guidance Approach to Target Ballistic Capture Corridors at Mars (Show >>)
A Direct Optimization Approach for Robust Trajectories of Interplanetary CubeSats (Show >>)
A Robust Image Processing Pipeline for Planets Line-Of-Sight Extraction for Deep-Space Autonomous Cubesats Navigation (Show >>)
A Small Body Open-Source Dataset for Image Processing Algorithms (Show >>)
A Survey of Gravitational Modeling Techniques for Minor Body Proximity Operations (Show >>)
An Indirect Formulation of Operational Compliant Low-Thrust Trajectories (Show >>)
An Overview of EXTREMA Project Pillar II: Validating Autonomous Guidance Algorithms via HIL Testing (Show >>)
Analysis of the Covector Mapping Principle Using Non-Complete Methods (Show >>)
Autonomous Image-Based Navigation in Cislunar Orbits via Meta-Reinforcement Learning (Show >>)
Autonomous Navigation Using Integrated X-ray Pulsar and Optical Measurements (Show >>)
Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats: Algorithm Development and Hardware Validation (Show >>)
Clustering of Earth-Moon Transfers in Sun-Perturbed Environment (Show >>)
Design and Cases Studies of CORTO, an Open Access Rendering Tool for Celestial and Artificial Bodies (Show >>)
Design and Optimisation of Weak Stability Boundary Transfers to Unstable Libration-Point Orbits: an Application to the LUMIO CubeSat (Show >>)
Design of the On-Board Image Processing of the Milani Mission (Show >>)
Disturbances Quantification for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Attitude Simulation Platforms (Show >>)
ELAPSE: a FlatSat Software and Processing Unit for Deep-Space Autonomous GNC Systems Testing (Show >>)
Enhancing Autonomy for Close-Proximity Operations: the MSCA-funded Project CASTOR (Show >>)
Exterior Earth Moon Transfers Design Using the Theory of Functional Connections and Homotopy (Show >>)
Fast Desensitized Optimal Control for Rocket Powered Descent and Landing (Show >>)
Goal-Oriented Asteroid Mapping Under Uncertainties Using Sequential Convex Programming (Show >>)
Hardware-In-the-loop Validation of Autonomous Interplanetary Navigation Algorithms for Interplanetary Cruises with the Optical Star Stimulator (Show >>)
Hera CubeSats Operational Mission Analysis and Trajectory Design Around Binary Asteroid for Small Bodies Characterisation (Show >>)
LUMIO - Payload Design for Lunar Meteoroids Impact Detection (Show >>)
LUMIO: Detecting Meteoroid Impacts on the Lunar Surface (Show >>)
Modular Pipeline for Small Bodies Gravity Field Modeling: an Efficient Representation of Variable Density Spherical Harmonics Coefficients (Show >>)
Moon Limb-Based Autonomous Optical Navigation Using Star Trackers (Show >>)
Multiphysics Acausal Modeling and Simulation of Satellites Using Modelica Library (Show >>)
On the Refinement of Low-Energy Earth–moon Transfer Families into an Ephemeris Model (Show >>)
Orbit Determination for X-Ray Pulsar Navigation with the Aid of Artificial Neural Networks (Show >>)
RETINA: a Highly-Versatile Optical Facility for Camera-In-the-loop Testing of Spaceborne Vision-Based Sensors (Show >>)
Resource-Constrained Vision-Based Relative Navigation About Small Bodies (Show >>)
Robustness Analysis of Data Driven Image Processing Methods for Autonomous Navigation with Application to the Hera Mission (Show >>)
Scientific and Technological Objectives for the NavCam Payload of Hera’s Milani CubeSat to Binary Asteroid Didymos (Show >>)
TINYV3RSE: The Dart Vision-Based Navigation Test Bench (Show >>)
The ALCOR mission FUTURE: an In-Orbit Demonstrator for On-Board Fully Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation (Show >>)
The EXTREMA Thruster-In-The-Loop Experiment: a facility for hands-on testing of spacecraft guidance algorithms (Show >>)
The Orbital Regime Index: a Comprehensive Parameter to Determine Orbital Regions Around Minor Bodies (Show >>)
Toward Verification and Validation of the Milani Image Processing Pipeline in the Hardware-In-the-loop Testbench Tinyv3rse (Show >>)
Trajectory Design and Analysis of the LUMIO CubeSat (Show >>)
Vision-Based Navigation for the LUMIO CubeSat Mission (Show >>)
Zodiac Pioneer: an Interplanetary Small Satellite Platform for Asteroid Reconnaissance (Show >>)
Journal Articles
Analytic Gradients in Normalized Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with Interior-Point Constraints (Show >>)
Autonomous Vision-Based Algorithm for Interplanetary Navigation (Show >>)
Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with No-Thrust Constraints and Moving Target (Show >>)
Convex Trajectory Optimization Using Thrust Regularization (Show >>)
High-Accuracy, Vision-Based Attitude Estimation System for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators (Show >>)
Improved detection of a Near-Earth Asteroid from an interplanetary CubeSat mission (Show >>)
Initial Trajectory Assessment of a low-thrust option for the RAMSES Mission to (99942) Apophis (Show >>)
Low-energy Earth–Moon transfers via Theory of Functional Connections and homotopy (Show >>)
MONET: The Minor Body Generator Tool at DART Lab (Show >>)
On optimal three-impulse Earth–Moon transfers in a four-body model (Show >>)
Onboard State Estimation Around Didymos with Recurrent Neural Networks and Segmentation Maps (Show >>)
Synthesis of Ballistic Capture Corridors at Mars via Polynomial Chaos Expansion (Show >>)
The path towards increasing RAMS for novel complex missions based on CubeSat technology (Show >>)
Thrust continuation of time-optimal orbital transfers with soft terminal conditions (Show >>)
Uncertainty Propagation Performance in Proximity Operations Around Small Bodies (Show >>)
Warm-Start of Interior-Point Methods Applied to Sequential Convex Programming (Show >>)


List of publications and reserach products for the year 2023 (Show all details | Hide all details)
Type Title of the Publicaiton/Product
Patents
Sensore e metodo di stima dello stato di un satellite artificiale e satellite artificiale (Show >>)
Contributions on scientific books
The ERC-Funded EXTREMA Project: Achieving Self-Driving Interplanetary CubeSats (Show >>)
Conference proceedings
A Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Integrator for Spacecraft Dynamics with Uncertainty (Show >>)
Analysis and Optimization of Robust Trajectories in Cislunar Environment with Application to the LUMIO Cubesat (Show >>)
Backbone of Ballistic Capture Set (Show >>)
CUBENAV: A Flight Dynamics Tool to Support Guidance and Navigation Operations of Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
Closed-Loop Guidance for Interplanetary CubeSats with Indirect Methods (Show >>)
Combined Convex and Direct Shooting Optimization for Low-Thrust Trajectory Generation with Analytical Thrust Profile (Show >>)
Current Status of the LUMIO Autonomous Optical Navigation Experiment (Show >>)
Deep Learning for Navigation of Small Satellites About Asteroids: an Introduction to the Deepnav Project (Show >>)
Design of Operational Compliant Trajectories Through a Homotopic Direct Collocation Algorithm (Show >>)
Design, Analysis and Validation of the ADCS for the LUMIO Mission (Show >>)
Direct-Indirect Hybrid Strategy for Optimal Powered Descent and Landing (Show >>)
Goal-Oriented Guidance Strategy for Binary Asteroid Exploration: Investigation of Different Metrics (Show >>)
HACK: a Holistic modeling Approach for Cubesat cyberattacKs (Show >>)
Impact of Different Coordinate Sets on the Performance of Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization (Show >>)
LUMIO Mission: Observation and Characterization of Lunar Meteoroid Impacts (Show >>)
Object Recognition Algorithms for the Didymos Binary System (Show >>)
SPESI: a Real-Time Space Environment Simulator for the EXTREMA Project (Show >>)
The CubeSat Mission FUTURE: A Preliminary Analysis to Validate the On-Board Autonomous Orbit Determination (Show >>)
The EXTREMA Autonomous Guidance Algorithm for Low-Thrust Interplanetary Spacecraft (Show >>)
The Image Processing of Milani: Challenges After DART Impact (Show >>)
Towards Validation and Verification of Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation for Interplanetary Spacecraft (Show >>)
Journal Articles
Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Robust Trajectories in Cislunar Environment for Limited-Capability Spacecraft (Show >>)
Application of Pulsar-Based Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
Applied Trajectory Design for CubeSat Close-Proximity Operations around Asteroids: The Milani Case (Show >>)
Autonomous Wheel Off-Loading Strategies for Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
CORTO: The Celestial Object Rendering TOol at DART Lab (Show >>)
Celestial Bodies Far-Range Detection with Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
CubeSat Landing Simulations on Small Bodies using Blender (Show >>)
Direct–Indirect Hybrid Strategy for Optimal Powered Descent and Landing (Show >>)
Finding regions of bounded motion in binary asteroid environment using Lagrangian descriptors (Show >>)
Guidance and Control design for CubeSat small body landing using discrete firings of sliding mode control (Show >>)
Indirect Optimization of Fuel-Optimal Many-Revolution Low-Thrust Transfers With Eclipses (Show >>)
Meteoroids detection with the LUMIO lunar CubeSat (Show >>)
Performance Assessment of Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Methods (Show >>)
Present-day model of lunar meteoroids and their impact flashes for LUMIO mission (Show >>)
Qualitative study of ballistic capture at Mars via Lagrangian descriptors (Show >>)
Target-Based Guidance Method for Trajectories with Multiple Flybys (Show >>)
The effect of a rocky terrain for CubeSat landing on asteroid surfaces (Show >>)
The vision-based guidance, navigation, and control system of Hera’s Milani Cubesat (Show >>)


List of publications and reserach products for the year 2022 (Show all details | Hide all details)
Type Title of the Publicaiton/Product
Abstract in Atti di convegno
An Overview of the EXTREMA Deep-Space Optical Navigation Experiment (Show >>)
Improved Detection of a Near-Earth Asteroid from an Interplanetary CubeSat Mission (Show >>)
Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Characterization Around a Small Body Using a Monocular Camera (Show >>)
Conference proceedings
A Vision-Based Navigation Algorithm for Autonomous Deep-Space Cruise (Show >>)
Advances in Koopman Operator Theory for Optimal Control Problems in Space Flight (Show >>)
An Algorithm to Engineer Autonomous Ballistic Capture at Mars (Show >>)
Autonomous Wheel Off-Loading Strategies for Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
Boulders Identification on Small Bodies Under Varying Illumination Conditions (Show >>)
Characterization of Ballistic Capture Corridors Aiming at Autonomous Ballistic Capture at Mars (Show >>)
Current Status of LUMIO: a Lunar CubeSat Mission at Earth-Moon L2 (Show >>)
Design of the Vision-Based GNC Subsystem of Hera’s Milani Mission (Show >>)
ETHILE: A Thruster-In-The-Loop Facility to Enable Autonomous Guidance and Control of Autonomous Interplanetary CubeSat (Show >>)
Embedded Homotopy for Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization with Operational Constraints (Show >>)
Exploiting Coherent Patterns for the Analysis of Qualitative Motion and the Design of Bounded Orbits Around Small Bodies (Show >>)
Hardware-In-the-loop Simulation Framework for CubeSats Proximity Operations: Application to the Milani Mission (Show >>)
Indirect Optimization for Low-Thrust Transfers with Earth-Shadow Eclipses (Show >>)
LUMIO: A CubeSat to Monitor Micro-Meteroid Impacts on the Lunar Farside (Show >>)
Line-Of-Sight Extraction Algorithm for Deep-Space Autonomous Navigation (Show >>)
Mission Analysis and Navigation Assessment for Hera’s Milani CubeSat (Show >>)
Modeling and Simulation of Milani CubeSat Contact Motion on the Surface of the Secondary Asteroid of Didymos Binary System (Show >>)
Navigation About Irregular Bodies Through Segmentation Maps (Show >>)
On Optimal Three-Impulse Earth-Moon Transfers in a Four-Body Model (Show >>)
On the Performance of Discretization and Trust-Region Methods for On-Board Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization (Show >>)
On-board Small-Body Semantic Segmentation Based on Morphological Features with U-Net (Show >>)
Procedural Minor Body Generator Tool for Data-Driven Optical Navigation Methods (Show >>)
Pseudospectral Convex Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization in a High-Fidelity Model (Show >>)
STASIS: an Attitude Testbed for Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations of Autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems (Show >>)
TINYV3RSE: The DART Vision-Based Navigation Test-bench (Show >>)
The EXTREMA Orbital Simulation Hub: a Facility for GNC Testing of Autonomous Interplanetary CubeSat (Show >>)
The Envelope of Reachable Asteroids of M-ARGO Interplanetary CubeSat (Show >>)
The Milani mission: overview and architecture of the optical-based GNC system (Show >>)
Toward On-Board Guidance of Low-Thrust Spacecraft in Deep Space Using Sequential Convex Programming (Show >>)
Trajectory Design and Orbit Determination of Hera’s Milani CubeSat (Show >>)
Journal Articles
A Homotopic Direct Collocation Approach for Operational-Compliant Trajectory Design (Show >>)
A TFC-based homotopy continuation algorithm with application to dynamics and control problems (Show >>)
Aeroballistic Capture at Mars: Modeling, Optimization, and Assessment (Show >>)
Combined System-Trajectory Design for Geostationary Orbit Platforms on Hybrid Transfer (Show >>)
Data-Driven Image Processing for Onboard Optical Navigation Around a Binary Asteroid (Show >>)
Deep-Space Optical Navigation Exploiting Multiple Beacons (Show >>)
Image Processing Robustness Assessment of Small-Body Shapes (Show >>)
Indirect Optimization of Power-Limited Asteroid Rendezvous Trajectories (Show >>)
LUMIO: A CubeSat for observing and characterizing micro-meteoroid impacts on the Lunar far side (Show >>)
Onboard Orbit Determination for Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
Robust Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization Using Convex Programming and a Homotopic Approach (Show >>)
Stable sets mapping with Taylor differential algebra with application to ballistic capture orbits around Mars (Show >>)
The TinyV3RSE Hardware-in-the-Loop Vision-Based Navigation Facility (Show >>)


List of publications and reserach products for the year 2021 (Show all details | Hide all details)
Type Title of the Publicaiton/Product
Abstract in Atti di convegno
LUMIO Cubesat: a Mission to Refine Meteoroid Population Knowledge (Show >>)
The Hera Milani Cubesat Mission (Show >>)
Conference proceedings
A Homotopic Approach for Robust Low-Thrust Trajectory Design Through Convex Optimization (Show >>)
An Overview of Autonomous Optical Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats (Show >>)
Closed-Loop Guidance for Low-Thrust Interplanetary Trajectories Using Convex Programming (Show >>)
Current Status of LUMIO Mission: Characterizing Lunar Meteoroid Impacts with a CubeSat (Show >>)
Design Challenges and Opportunities Offered by the LUMIO Spacecraft: a CubeSat for Observing and Characterizing Micro-Meteoroid Impacts on the Lunar Far Side (Show >>)
Designing the Radio Link for a Lunar CubeSat: the LUMIO Case (Show >>)
Selection of the Propulsion System for the LUMIO Mission: an Intricate Trade-Off Between Cost, Reliability and Performance (Show >>)
Small-Body Shape Recognition with Convolutional Neural Network and Comparison with Explicit Features Based Method (Show >>)
The Radiation Environment and Effects Analysis of the LUMIO Mission (Show >>)
Toward Self-Driving Interplanetary CubeSats: the ERC-Funded Project EXTREMA (Show >>)
Journal Articles
A flow-informed strategy for ballistic capture orbit generation (Show >>)
Analytical Impulsive-to-Continuous Thrust Conversion in Linearized Relative Dynamics (Show >>)
Deep-Space Optical Navigation for M-ARGO Mission (Show >>)
Envelop of reachable asteroids by M-ARGO CubeSat (Show >>)
Mars orbit insertion via ballistic capture and aerobraking (Show >>)
Modeling Irregular Small Bodies Gravity Field Via Extreme Learning Machines and Bayesian Optimization (Show >>)
Preliminary mission profile of Hera’s Milani CubeSat (Show >>)
Rapid Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization in Deep Space Based on Convex Programming (Show >>)
Trajectory Options for Hera’s Milani CubeSat Around (65803) Didymos (Show >>)
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