Journal Papers
J9. T. S. Vaquero, G. Daddi, R. Thakker, M. Paton, A. Jasour, M. P. Strub, R. M. Swan, R. Royce, M. Gildner, P. Tosi, M. Veismann, P. Gavrilov, E. Marteau, J. Bowkett, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, Y. K. Nakka, B. Hockman, A. Orekhov and3 T. D. Hasseler, C. Leake, B. Nuernberger, P. Proenca, W. Reid, W. Talbot, N. Georgiev, T. Pailevanian, A. Archanian, E. Ambrose, J. Jasper, R. Etheredge, C. Roman, D. Levine, K. Otsu, S. Yearicks, H. Melikyan, R. Rieber, K. Carpenter, J. Nash, A. Jain, L. Shiraishi, M. Robinson, M. Travers, H. Choset, J. Burdick, A. Gardner, M. Cable, M. Ingham, and M. Ono. Autonomous task and motion
planning for ice worlds exploration. Science Robotics 2024.
J8. Y. K. Nakka and Soon-Jo Chung. Trajectory optimization of chance-constrained nonlinear stochastic systems for motion planning under uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023
J7. Y. K. Nakka, W. Hönig, C. Choi, A. Haravd, A. Rahmani, and Soon-Jo Chung. Information-based guidance and control architecture for multi-spacecraft on-orbit inspection: Algorithm and experiments. Journal of Guidance Control and Navigation, 2022
J6. Y. K. Nakka and S-J Chung. Safe tracking control under uncertainty: A stochastic model predictive control approach using control contraction metric. IEEE Control Systems Letters (Under Works).
J5. Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Soon-Jo Chung, Benjamin Donitz, Michel Ingham, Declan Mages, and Y. K. Nakka. Neural-rendezvous: Learning-based robust guidance and control to encounter interstellar objects. Journal of Guidance Control and Navigation (Under Review), 2022
J4. Y. K. Nakka, A. Liu, G. Shi, A. Anandkumar, Y. Yue, and S. J. Chung. Chance-constrained trajectory optimization for safe exploration and learning of nonlinear systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):389–396, 2021
J3. Rebecca C Foust, Elena Sorina Lupu, Y. K. Nakka, Soon-Jo Chung, and Fred Y Hadaegh. Autonomous in-orbit satellite assembly from a modular heterogeneous swarm. Acta Astronautica, 2019
J2. Y. K. Nakka, Soon-Jo Chung, James T Allison, Jack B Aldrich, and Oscar S Alvarez-Salazar. Nonlinear attitude control of a spacecraft with distributed actuation of solar arrays. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 42(3):458–475, 2019
J1. Christian M Chilan, Daniel R Herber, Y. K. Nakka, Soon-Jo Chung, James T Allison, Jack B Aldrich, and Oscar S Alvarez-Salazar. Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for spacecraft precision pointing and jitter reduction. AIAA Journal, pages 3180–3195, 2017
Conference Papers
C19. B. Saptarshi, Y. K. Nakka, Lorraine Fesq, Steven Ardito. Design and Development of MuSCAT: Multi-Spacecraft Concept and Autonomy Tool. AIAA ASCEND, 2024.
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C18. H. El-Kabir, Y. K. Nakka, M. Ornik, Changrak Choi, and A. Rahmani. Robust detection and identification of simultaneous sensor and actuator faults. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024
C17. Jean-Pierre de la Croix, Federico Rossi, Roland Brockers, Dustin Aguilar, Keenan Albee, Elizabeth Boroson, Abhishek Cauligi, Jeff Delaune, Robert Hewitt, Dima Kogan, Grace Lim, Benjamin Morrell, Yashwanth Nakka, Viet Nguyen, Pedro Proenc¸a, Gregg Rabideau, Joseph Russino, Maria Saboia da Silva, Guy Zohar, and Subha Comandur. Multi-agent autonomy for space exploration, IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024
C16. Michael Paton, Richard Rieber, Sarah Yearicks, Matt Gildner, Chantelle Abma, Kevin Abma, Sina Aghli, Eric Ambrose, Avak Archanian, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Cathy Baroco, Andrew Blackstock, Joseph Bowkett, Morgan L. Cable, Guglielmo Daddi, Tomas Drevinskas, Rachel Etheredge, Tom Gall, Alex S. Gardner, Peter Gavrilov, Nikola Georgiev, Katie Graham, Benjamin Hockman, Bryson Jones, Scott Linn, Michael J. Malaska, Eloïse Marteau, Nick Maslen, Hovhannes Melikyan, Yashwanth Nakka, Jason Nelson, Michele Pazzini, Martin Peticco, Michael Prior-Jones3, Matthew Robinson, Rob Royce, Mary Ryan, Lori Shiraishi, Christian Stenner, Marlin Strub, Robert Michael Swan, Ben Swerdlow, Rohan Thakker, Luis Phillipe Tosi, Tony Tran, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Marcel Veismann, Tom Wood, Harshad Zade, and Masahiro Ono. 2023 eels field tests at athabasca glacier as an icy moon analog environment. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024
C15. Rohan Thakker, Michael Paton, Marlin Strub, Michael Swan, Guglielmo Daddi, Rob Royce, Matthew Gildner, Tiago Vaquero, Phillipe Tosi, Marcel Veismann, Peter Gavrilov, Eloise Marteau, Joseph Bowkett, Daniel Loret, Yashwanth Nakka, Benjamin Hockman, Andrew Orekhov, Tristan Hasseler, Carl Leake, Benjamin Nuernberger, Pedro Proença, William Reid, William Talbot, Nikola Georgiev, Torkom Pailevanian, Avak Archanian, Eric Ambrose, Jay Jasper, Rachel Etheredge, Christiahn Roman, Dan Levine, Kyohei Otsu, Hovhannes Melikyan, Richard Rieber, Kalind Carpenter, Jeremy Nash, Abhinandan Jain, Lori Shiraishi, Sarah Yearicks, Michel Ingham, Matthew Robinson, Ali Agha, Matthew Travers, Howie Choset† ,Joel Burdick, and Masahiro Ono. Eels: Towards autonomous mobility in extreme environments with a novel large-scale screw driven snake robot. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2023.
C14. Rohan Thakker, Michael Paton, Marlin Strub, Michael Swan, Guglielmo Daddi, Rob Royce, Matthew Gildner, Tiago Vaquero, Phillipe Tosi, Marcel Veismann, Peter Gavrilov, Eloise Marteau, Joseph Bowkett, Daniel Loret, Yashwanth Nakka, Benjamin Hockman, Andrew Orekhov, Tristan Hasseler, Carl Leake, Benjamin Nuernberger, Pedro Proença, William Reid, William Talbot, Nikola Georgiev, Torkom Pailevanian, Avak Archanian, Eric Ambrose, Jay Jasper, Rachel Etheredge, Christiahn Roman, Dan Levine, Kyohei Otsu, Hovhannes Melikyan, Richard Rieber, Kalind Carpenter, Jeremy Nash, Abhinandan Jain, Lori Shiraishi, Sarah Yearicks, Michel Ingham, Matthew Robinson, Ali Agha, Matthew Travers, Howie Choset, Joel Burdick, and Masahiro Ono. To boldly go where no robots have gone before – part 4: neo autonomy for robustly exploring unknown, extreme environments with versatile robots. AIAA Guidance Navigation anf Control (Under Review)., 2024
C13. A. Gupta, Y.K. Nakka, C. Choi, and A. Rahmani. Global task-aware fault detection identification for on-orbit multi-spacecraft collaborative inspection. Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Space Flight Mechanics 2023, 2023
C12. C. Choi; Y. K. Nakka; S-J Chung; A. Rahmani. Resilient multi-agent collaborative spacecraft inspection. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2023
C11. T. Gutierrez; N. Coulter; H. Moncayo; Y. K. Nakka; C. Choi; A. Rahmani. Distributed health management for resilient multi-agent collaborative spacecraft inspection. In AIAA SCITECH Forum, 2023
C10. D Neamati, Y. K. Nakka, and S-J Chung. Learning-based methods to model small body gravity fields for proximity operations: Safety and robustness. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, page 2271, 2022
C9. Y. K. Nakka, W. Hönig, C. Choi, A. Haravd, A. Rahmani, and Soon-Jo Chung. Information-based guidance and control architecture for multi-spacecraft on-orbit inspection. In AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Jan 2021 (Best Student Paper Award)
C8. Y. K. Nakka and Soon-Jo Chung. Trajectory optimization for chance-constrained nonlinear stochastic systems. In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pages 3811–3818, Dec 2019
C7. Kai Matsuka, Elena Sorina Lupu, Y. K. Nakka, Rebecca Foust, Soon-Jo Chung, and Fred Hadægh. Distributed multi-target relative pose estimation for cooperative spacecraft swarm. In 11th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying, 2019 (Best Paper Award)
C6. Rebecca C Foust, Elena Sorina Lupu, Y. K. Nakka, Soon-Jo Chung, and Fred Y Hadaegh. Ultra-soft electromagnetic docking with applications to in-orbit assembly. In International Astronautical Federation, 2018
C5. Y. K. Nakka, Rebecca C Foust, Elena Sorina Lupu, David B Elliott, Irene S Crowell, SoonJo Chung, and Fred Y Hadaegh. Six degree-of-freedom spacecraft dynamics simulator for formation control research. In 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2018
C4. Rebecca C Foust, Y. K. Nakka, Ayush Saxena, Soon-Jo Chung, and Fred Y Hadaegh. Automated rendezvous and docking using tethered formation flight. In 9th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying, 2017
C3. Christian M Chilan, Daniel R Herber, Y. K. Nakka, Soon-Jo Chung, James T Allison, Jack B Aldrich, and Oscar S Alvarez-Salazar. Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for precision pointing and jitter reduction. In 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, page 0162, 2016
C2. Y. K. Nakka, M.R.D. Shashank, S Adhikari, N Surendran, V.K. Hariharan, M.R. Thyagaraj, G.V.C. Rajan, and K. V. Govinda. Static test fixture for spacecraft handling systems. In Workshop on Futuristic Aerospace Vehicles Integration and Testing (FAVIT 2014) Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, 2014
C1. Y. K. Nakka, M. Velayudhan, N Surendran, V.K. Hariharan, M.R. Thyagaraj, G.V.C. Rajan, and K. V. Govinda. Launch vehicle interface: Constraints on spacecraft mechanical configuration. In Workshop on Futuristic Aerospace Vehicles Integration and Testing (FAVIT 2014) Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, 2014