CU Boulder Specialist Seminar Series @KAIST AE #6

Coordinated Persistent Information Gathering by Autonomous Robot Teams

ㅁ Speaker: Prof. Jay McMahon (University of Colorado Boulder)
ㅁ Time/Venue: Tuesday October 25, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
ㅁ Room N7-2602, KAIST

ㅁ Abstract:
Small bodies in the solar system - both asteroids and comets - have complex dynamical environments that create unique challenges to operating spacecraft in close proximity. Future missions will desire to more efficiently explore these bodies, as well as wanting to spend more time closer to or on their surfaces, which will necessitate having more capable autonomous spacecraft. This talk will lay out some of the challenges that face such missions, provide an overview of the state-of-the-art for current small body exploration missions such as OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2, and will then discuss recent research in small body autonomy at the University of Colorado. In particular, my lab focuses on developing autonomous algorithms for guidance, navigation, and control for small body missions that will help to push forward our exploration capabilities for future government and/or commercial missions

ㅁ Speaker Bio: 
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 the Deputy-PI of NASA’s Janus mission to flyby two binary asteroids, 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 was named the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Graduate Advisor Award in CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2020 he was selected for a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and in 2018 he was selected as a NASA STMD Early Career Faculty fellow. He is also a NIAC fellow, and was the AIAA Rocky Mountain Section Young Engineer of the Year in 2017. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, his MS in 2006 from the University of Southern California, and his BS from the University of Michigan in 2004. He previously worked on launch vehicle guidance systems at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA.

Contact: Dae-Young Lee (ae_dylee@kaist.ac.kr)