{"id":1506,"date":"2023-11-09T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T02:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:40:18","slug":"esa-funded-collaboration-with-dlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/2023\/esa-funded-collaboration-with-dlr\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA-funded Collaboration with DLR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        ESA-funded Collaboration with DLR\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Under significant funding from the European Space Agency, Prof. Ulrich&#8217;s Spacecraft Robotics and Control Lab initiated a collaborative research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Specifically, the project titled <em>Data-Driven Robust Guidance Algorithms to Approach a Tumbling Space Debris<\/em> investigates stochastic real-time path planning techniques to dock with an uncooperative target in space using various machine learning methods. This 3-year project leverages Prof. Ulrich&#8217;s research team expertise in the areas of machine learning and path planning for spacecraft proximity operations and DLR&#8217;s cutting-edge experience with spacecraft rendezvous and docking techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney Bashnick, currently a PhD student at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´&#8217;s Spacecraft Robotics and Control Lab, will lead the technical development activities as part of her PhD thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under significant funding from the European Space Agency, Prof. Ulrich&#8217;s Spacecraft Robotics and Control Lab initiated a collaborative research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Specifically, the project titled Data-Driven Robust Guidance Algorithms to Approach a Tumbling Space Debris investigates stochastic real-time path planning techniques to dock with an uncooperative target in space using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/spacecraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}