Aaron John Sabu
Curriculum Vitae

Selected research

MACRO

Multi-agent space assembly

Distributed allocation, collision-aware motion planning, and attitude consensus for autonomous construction of large orbital structures.

PaperCodeUndergraduate thesis
Context
Undergraduate thesis · IIT Bombay
Collaboration
With Dwaipayan Mukherjee
Areas
Multi-robot systems · Allocation · Formation control
Conceptual illustration of a modular spacecraft structure in orbit
Conceptual space-telescope module illustration from Aaron John Sabu’s portfolio; it provides mission context rather than depicting constructed hardware.

Problem

Launch-vehicle constraints limit the aperture of monolithic space telescopes. MACRO asks how multiple spacecraft could autonomously assemble a larger parabolic structure after deployment in an elliptic orbit.

Contribution

The framework decomposes the assembly problem into allocation, collision-aware formation maneuvers, local attitude synchronization, and convergence to prescribed positions and orientations around a central spacecraft.

The public repository packages the simulation methods accompanying the undergraduate thesis and paper.

Outcome

The work was published at the 2021 Indian Control Conference and released with its simulation code and undergraduate thesis.

Its results are simulation studies, not an on-orbit hardware demonstration.

Citation

How to cite this work

Peer-reviewed conference paper · Indian Control Conference, 2021