In this talk, Jay McMahon will give an overview of some of the autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control and robotics research that is being done in his lab, ORCCA, at the University of Colorado.

He will briefly cover different topics, including solar sailing to land on asteroids, stochastic guidance around asteroids, and methods for autonomous navigation.

Finally he will discuss a type of soft-robotic spacecraft he has been designing that take advantage of these algorithms for satellite servicing or asteroid mining applications.

Speaker:

Jay McMahon is an Associate Professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado Boulder.

His research focuses on autonomy, guidance, navigation, and control for spacecraft, along with the governing dynamics for these systems. He has especially focused on applications to small bodies.
He is a Participating Scientist for the DART Mission, and was on the science teams investigating gravity science for NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 missions.

He has been named as a Early Career Faculty fellow by NASA and DARPA and is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts fellow. He previously worked on launch vehicle guidance systems at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA. Asteroid (46829) McMahon - a main belt binary asteroid - is named in his honor.

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06.05.2024