| Chance-constrained trajectory optimization for safe exploration and learning of nonlinear systems YK Nakka, A Liu, G Shi, A Anandkumar, Y Yue, SJ Chung IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6 (2), 389-396, 2020 | 52 | 2020 |
| A six degree-of-freedom spacecraft dynamics simulator for formation control research YK Nakka, RC Foust, ES Lupu, DB Elliott, IS Crowell, SJ Chung, ... 2018 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 1-20, 2018 | 48* | 2018 |
| Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for spacecraft precision pointing and jitter reduction CM Chilan, DR Herber, YK Nakka, SJ Chung, JT Allison, JB Aldrich, ... AIAA journal 55 (9), 3180-3195, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Information-Based Guidance and Control Architecture for Multi-Spacecraft On-Orbit Inspection YK Nakka, W Hönig, C Choi, A Harvard, A Rahmani, SJ Chung AIAA Scitech, Guidance Navigation and Control, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Autonomous in-orbit satellite assembly from a modular heterogeneous swarm RC Foust, ES Lupu, YK Nakka, SJ Chung, FY Hadaegh Acta Astronautica 169, 191-205, 2020 | 37 | 2020 |
| Ultra-soft electromagnetic docking with applications to in-orbit assembly RC Foust, ES Lupu, YK Nakka, SJ Chung, FY Hadaegh 69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen, Germany, 1-5, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Trajectory optimization of chance-constrained nonlinear stochastic systems for motion planning under uncertainty YK Nakka, SJ Chung IEEE Transactions on Robotics 39 (1), 203-222, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Trajectory optimization for chance-constrained nonlinear stochastic systems YK Nakka, SJ Chung 2019 IEEE 58th conference on decision and control (CDC), 3811-3818, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Nonlinear attitude control of a spacecraft with distributed actuation of solar arrays YK Nakka, SJ Chung, JT Allison, JB Aldrich, OS Alvarez-Salazar Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 42 (3), 458-475, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Automated rendezvous and docking using tethered formation flight RC Foust, YK Nakka, A Saxena, SJ Chung, FY Hadaegh 9th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Co-design of strain-actuated solar arrays for precision pointing and jitter reduction CM Chilan, DR Herber, YK Nakka, SJ Chung, JT Allison, JB Aldrich, ... 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials …, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| EELS: Towards Autonomous Mobility in Extreme Terrain with a Versatile Snake Robot with Resilience to Exteroception Failures R Thakker, M Paton, MP Strub, M Swan, G Daddi, R Royce, P Tosi, ... 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| EELS: Autonomous snake-like robot with task and motion planning capabilities for ice world exploration TS Vaquero, G Daddi, R Thakker, M Paton, A Jasour, MP Strub, RM Swan, ... Science Robotics 9 (88), eadh8332, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |
| Spacecraft Motion Planning and Control under Probabilistic Uncertainty for Coordinated Inspection and Safe Learning YK Nakka California Institute of Technology, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Distributed multi-target relative pose estimation for cooperative spacecraft swarm K Matsuka, ES Lupu, YK Nakka, R Foust, SJ Chung, F Hadaegh 10th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying …, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Nonlinear attitude control of spacecraft with strain-actuated solar arrays YK Nakka | 4 | 2016 |
| Neural-rendezvous: Learning-based robust guidance and control to encounter interstellar objects H Tsukamoto, SJ Chung, B Donitz, M Ingham, D Mages, YK Nakka arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04883, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| 2023 EELS Field Tests at Athabasca Glacier as an Icy Moon Analogue Environment M Paton, R Rieber, S Cruz, M Gildner, C Abma, K Abma, S Aghli, ... 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-18, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| To Boldly Go Where No Robots Have Gone Before–Part 1: EELS Robot to Spearhead a New One-Shot Exploration Paradigm with in-situ Adaptation M Ono, R Thakker, N Georgiev, P Gavrilov, A Archanian, T Drevinskas, ... AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum, 1746, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nonlinear Controller Design for a Quadrotor with Inverted Pendulum X Shi, YK Nakka arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02741, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
Soon-Jo ChungBren Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech; JPL Senior Research ScientistVerified email at caltech.edu
