Emmanuel Blazquez is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Advanced Mission Analysis at the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, Nederland. His research areas are advanced mission analysis studies, with a focus on on-board real-time optimization asssisted by Artificial Intelligence. He also works on Autonomous Guidance and Control architectures, Multibody Astrodynamics and System Identification.
We start talking about the structure and goals of the Advanced Concepts Team, its interactions with ESA and the overall space community. We talk, as it is often the case in this podcast, about the synergies between Dynamical Systems and Artificial Intelligence. In particular, we talk about the use of classification techniques to investigate chaos, focusing in particular on Poincare' maps, starting from the relevance of chaotic dynamics in trajectory design.
We talk about potential interplay between convexification methods and Artificial Intelligence, in the context of optimal control and more in particular for randevouz, and how this has implications for the use of the Lunar Gateway.
We also talk about the use of GPUs in space research, talking about the asteroid aggregation problem, and the hardware he is using to conduct his work now.
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