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CEAS EuroGNC 2026

Tractor-Beam: An Experimental Testbed for Control of In-Orbit Service Systems with Varying Flexible Dynamics and Inertia
Jose F. Briz GNC Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Madrid, Spain.
Eduardo de Brito Software Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal. Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal.
Marco Rubaga Systems Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Mariana Ferreira Structural Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
Luís Ferreira GNC Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hugo Pereira GNC Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal.
Diogo Oliveira Software Engineer, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal.
Iñaki Colmenarejo Hardware Technician, GMV Innovating Solutions, Madrid, Spain.
Nuno Paulino Project Manager, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pedro Lourenço Section Head Advanced Guidance & Control, GMV Innovating Solutions, Lisbon, Portugal.
Valentin Preda Technical Officer, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Keywords: ISAM; In-Orbit Assembly; AOCS; Surrogate Experiments; Flexible Structures; Attitude Control; Hardware-in-the-loop; HIL (Hardware-in-the-loop); Validation
 View PDF CEAS-GNC-2026-062 doi: 10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-062


Jose F. Briz, Eduardo de Brito, Marco Rubaga, Mariana Ferreira, Luís Ferreira, Hugo Pereira, Diogo Oliveira, Iñaki Colmenarejo, Nuno Paulino, Pedro Lourenço, Valentin Preda: Tractor-Beam: An Experimental Testbed for Control of In-Orbit Service Systems with Varying Flexible Dynamics and Inertia. Proceedings of the 2026 CEAS EuroGNC conference. Madrid, Spain. May 2026. doi: 10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-062.
BibTeX entry (UTF-8):

@Incollection{CEAS-GNC-2026-062,
    author = {Briz, Jose F. and de Brito, Eduardo and Rubaga, Marco and Ferreira, Mariana and Ferreira, Luís and Pereira, Hugo and Oliveira, Diogo and Colmenarejo, Iñaki and Paulino, Nuno and Lourenço, Pedro and Preda, Valentin},
    title = {Tractor-Beam: An Experimental Testbed for Control of In-Orbit Service Systems with Varying Flexible Dynamics and Inertia},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 {CEAS EuroGNC} conference},
    address = {Madrid, Spain},
    month = may,
    year = {2026},
    doi = {10.82124/CEAS-GNC-2026-062}
}