Yuta Takahashi (Structural Dynamics Design Laboratory, Ph.D. student) received the Best Paper Nominee at IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025, 2nd Space Robotics Workshop

Yuta Takahashi (Structural Dynamics Design Laboratory, Ph.D. student) received the Best Paper Nominee at the IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025, 2nd Space Robotics Workshop, held in California, USA, on July 28–29, 2025.

Recipient’s Comment:
We presented a formation control system for large-scale satellite swarms and its experimental validation methods, aimed at applications in high-capacity broadband satellite communications. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Prof. Shin-Ichiro Sakai of JAXA/ISAS for his valuable discussions on control challenges, and to Mr. Takahiro Inagawa and Mr. Yamato Hannya of Interstellar Technologies Inc. for their insightful advice on the design of the ground-based experimental system.

Overview

Prize Winner:

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

Conferrer:

IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025, 2nd Space Robotics Workshop

Prize:

Best Paper Nominee

Title:

Experimental Study of Magnetically-Actuated Satellite Swarm: Controllability Extension via Time-Integrated Control with Geometry Learning

Date:

July 29, 2025

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