Yuta Takahashi (Space-Structural Dynamics Design Laboratory, Ph.D. student) received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award at AIAA SciTech Forum 2025 / Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Yuta Takahashi (Space-Structural Dynamics Design Laboratory (Hiraku Sakamoto Lab.), Ph.D. student) received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) SciTech Forum 2025 / Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference—the world’s largest aerospace conference—held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from January 6 to 10, 2025.

His paper "Distance-based Relative Orbital Transition for Palm-Sized Satellite Swarm with Guaranteed Escape-Avoidance," submitted to the “Distributed, Cooperative, and Multi-Vehicle Guidance, Navigation, and Control” category, passed two rounds of full-paper reviews and was selected for the GN&C Graduate Student Paper Competition. Six finalists presented their work at the conference, and each was honored with the Best Student Paper Finalist Award, along with a $500 prize and other recognitions.

Award Summary

Prize Winner：

Yuta Takahashi (Mechanical Engineering Graduate Major, Structural Dynamics Design Laboratory, Ph.D. student)

Coferrer：

2025 AIAA SciTech Forum/Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Prize：

Best Student Paper Finalist Award (Guidance Navigation and Control Graduate Conference Experience Award Finalist)

Title：

Distance-based Relative Orbital Transition for Palm-Sized Satellite Swarm with Guaranteed Escape-Avoidance
（DOI：https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2025-2068）

Date：

01/06/2025

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