Naval Postgraduate School

Tacit Knowledge and AI

We will be as unknowledgeable about what machines know about us as they are about what we know about them.

Universal Birkhoff Method for Computing Extremals in the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem

The computation of finite-thrust extremal arcs in the elliptic restricted three-body trajectory optimization problem is considered. Libration-point orbits are approximated to near-machine precision using a fast Fourier transform of the sampled values of the state vector at Chebys...

Moment-Net: A New Moment-Matching Neural Network for Pose Estimation

Determining a spacecraft's pose is an important task for autonomous navigation. Conventional AI systems rely on peak detection and look only for the most intense pixel. Consequently, the tracking image frequently suffers from peak flattening in the presence of blur or other distu...