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
Complexity Science
Earth System Sciences
Energy Systems
Fundamental Physics
Habitats
Informatics
Mission Analysis
Nanophotonics
Propulsion
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mission Analysis
Fuel Optimality in Lyapunov Control
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Mission Analysis
Maximum Initial Mass for Low-Thrust Trajectory Design
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Mission Analysis
Solar Sail Cycler Orbits
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Artificial Intelligence
Mathematical modelling for strategic decision-making in the future space economy
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Multidisciplinary
Memetic Co-design of 2D Locomotion Patterns
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Multidisciplinary
Differentiable Co-Optimization of Mass-Limited Legged Robots
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Multidisciplinary
Continuous learning of irregular gravity fields via Neural Hamiltonian ODEs
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Fundamental Physics
Stochastic control of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic error-correction
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Mission Analysis
Accelerated Taylor models for verified integration
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Informatics
Agreement Forests
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Multidisciplinary
Reinforcement Learning for Solar Sailing to the Outer Solar System
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Multidisciplinary
Deflective Sunshades
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Multidisciplinary
Reachability Approximators for Low-Thrust Trajectories
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Complexity Science
Investigating Fermi paradox: agent-based simulation of galactic settlements
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Mission Analysis
Spatial Keplerian Map
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Fundamental Physics
Quantum Distributed Sensing
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Artificial Intelligence
Robust Neural Control
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Artificial Intelligence
Optical Flow-Based Egomotion Estimation for Lunar Landing
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Informatics
Keplerian TSP
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Biomimetics
Earwig-Inspired Self-Deploying Bistable Structures
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Biomimetics
The Connectome of a Fly as a Computational Reservoir
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Mission Analysis
Neural Kepler Map
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Multidisciplinary
Quantum causality
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Biomimetics
Learning-based grasping strategy for soft robotic arms to capture space debris
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Bio-Engineering
Microbial consortia for space biomining
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Multidisciplinary
Black Hole Gravity Assists
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Mission Analysis
Comparing Reinforcement Learning with Behavioural Cloning for Guidance and Control in Space
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Artificial Intelligence
Memristor-based Neural Network Accelerators for Space Applications
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Mission Analysis
Improving VLEO Re-Entry Simulations
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Multidisciplinary
Totimorphic Structures for Space Applications
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Multidisciplinary
Event-based Vision for Navigation and Landing
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Fundamental Physics
Satellite Quantum Network Optimisation
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