The paper presents a permutation‑equivariant neural operator that learns to generate collision‑free, fuel‑efficient trajectories for spacecraft swarms by mapping distributions of initial and target states, as well as obstacle states, to trajectory outputs. The operator is self‑supervised and, when paired with a batched Gauss‑Newton step, enforces exact orbital dynamics and further reduces fuel consumption. Trained on ten spacecraft, the model generalizes zero‑shot to swarms of 1,000 spacecraft and 11,000 obstacles, achieving accuracy comparable to a per‑agent optimal control solver while maintaining collision avoidance.
arXiv:2608. 00320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous spacecraft swarms must plan fuel-efficient, collision-free maneuvers in increasingly congested orbits, yet classical trajectory optimization scales poorly as pairwise safety constraints multiply with swarm size, and learning-based planners rarely transfer across swarm sizes or debris densities.
arXiv:2608. 09628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision avoidance systems are commonly used to avoid fragmentation events occurring in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO).
arXiv:2608. 16651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Satellite agents for on-orbit navigation tasks need to predict collision risks using limited onboard observations.
arXiv:2606. 17414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) require controllers that guarantee safety under thrust constraints while minimizing fuel expenditure.
The paper investigates combining Reinforcement Learning (RL) with search-based path planners to accelerate flight trajectory optimization for airliners. An RL agent is trained to generate near‑optimal paths from location and atmospheric data, which then constrain a traditional solver to reduce its search space. Experiments using Airbus performance models show that fuel consumption deviates by less than 1% from an unconstrained solver while computation time improves by up to 50%.
arXiv:2610.01093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) are currently planned through an expertise-intensive process in which engineers translate high-l...
arXiv:2510. 09204v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces.
arXiv:2605. 26790v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-thrust trajectory design relies heavily on repeated evaluations of fuel consumption and transfer feasibility, which require expensive optimal control solutions.
arXiv:2607. 20743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the generation of collision-free and efficient trajectories in a potentially complex environment.
arXiv:2608.20948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous flight in unknown cluttered environments is hindered by the computation-quality-memory trilemma of onboard trajectory generation. In this...
arXiv:2606. 03756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Neural Navigation Functions (Neural-NF), a learned reactive navigation function capable of zero-shot transfer across unseen environment geometries.
The paper presents a training-free diffusion-based motion planner that replaces learned global trajectory scores with analytical local scores derived from obstacle, smoothness, velocity, and inter-agent feasibility terms. By reconstructing trajectory scores through local interactions between neighboring waypoints and nearby constraints, the method decomposes the denoising process while preserving the optimization structure of classical trajectory methods. Experiments demonstrate that this approach generates smooth, feasible trajectories for large multi-agent tasks in complex environments quickly, outperforming learning-based and optimization baselines without requiring training data.