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AE 4322 senior design showcase — on-orbit servicing, satellite refueling, robotic capture, and RPO (incl. team BUCEES) Georgia Tech · Space Systems Design

ICRA 2026 Field Robotics Workshop — humanoid locomotion on granular terrain, in collaboration with Prof. Ye Zhao's group ICRA 2026

Behind the Lab Doors — the AstroX Lab featured on the cover of Helluva Engineer GT College of Engineering Magazine · Cover story

Terrain-Adaptive Grouser Wheel (V. Griffo) — adaptive wheel morphology; ~750 hardware experiments; 30–58% slip reduction Research highlight → publications

FastBridge (D. Tscholl) — safety filters on 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-speed quadrotor flight with control barrier functions Research highlight → publications

Information-Driven Fault Detection & Identification for multi-agent spacecraft — NASA JPL & Purdue collaboration Research highlight → publications

Chance-constrained motion planning & stochastic control (T. Dokania) — improved feasibility under uncertainty Research highlight → publications

"We brought the Moon to Georgia Tech" — seven tons of basalt, extreme illumination, and autonomous planetary mobility LinkedIn

AstroX Lab simulates the Moon to advance next-gen space robotics research Georgia Tech Research News

Georgia Tech students build a moon-like lab to test robots for future missions CBS News

Ga Tech's Lunar Lab brings the Moon to Georgia FOX 5 Atlanta

Launch of the GT Planetary Robotics Facility — a lunar-analog testbed for verification and validation of planetary autonomy AstroX Lab

EELS ice-world exploration work published in Science Robotics Science Robotics

NASA JPL CADRE Team Award — Dr. Nakka, for contributions to multi-agent autonomy on the CADRE lunar technology demonstration NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Best Paper Award — GROVER: a variable-height grouser wheel for enhanced terrain adaptability RSS Workshop on Space Robotics

NASA JPL EELS Team Award — Dr. Nakka, for contributions to the EELS ice-world exploration robot NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory