Assistant Professor
Director of Space ACCORDS Lab
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)
I combine my multi-disciplinary experience that includes trajectory optimization, control systems, robotics, and sustainable engineering to think about holistic system-level design, optimization and estimation for space systems and exploration.
Bennet is exploring methods for autonomous, multi-agent spacecraft collaboration and competition via game theoretic formulations. Some example applications include: formation flying, pursuit-evasion, and inspection games. His current research consists of exploiting game structure for decentralized optimization, developing novel algorithms to solve nonconvex GNEPs, and learning the objectives of other agents. He is currently developing a package for solving differential games to complement this work.
Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Theology
Ansh is working on solving multi-integer linear programming problems in space logistics in the Earth Moon system. He is modeling rendezvous trajectories leveraging the manifolds with scheduling and phasing constraints
My long-term goal is to enable new classes of autonomous missions by bridging anomaly
detection with onboard decision making. I aim to advance physics-informed learning techniques that allow spacecraft to detect anomalies, identify root causes, and anticipate how faults constrain mission capability
Sannya worked on implementing control barrier functions to developing fault-tolerant trajectory design for spacecrafts.