In-Situ Reconstruction of the International Space Station Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Astrobee
Hudson Kim, Ryan Soussan, Brian Coltin, Jordan KamPreprint 2026
Mission / Earth orbit
NASA Ames · 2014–now · also Astrobee free-flyer
Three cube-shaped free-flying robots operating inside the ISS since 2019, used as a research platform for microgravity robotics and autonomy.
Official mission page26–50 of 96 papers naming Astrobee
Hudson Kim, Ryan Soussan, Brian Coltin, Jordan KamPreprint 2026
María Royo, Juan Carlos Crespo, Ali Arshadi, Cristian Flores +2 moreAerospace (MDPI) 2026
Suyoung Kang, Ryan Soussan, Daekyeong Lee, Brian Coltin +10 moreRA-L 2024 11 cited
Stephen Thiam-Choy Kwok-Choon, Jennifer Hudson, Marcello RomanoFrontiers RAI 2022 3 cited
Tony G. Chen, Abhishek Cauligi, Srinivasan A. Suresh, Marco Pavone +1 moreIEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 2022 38 cited
Earl DaleyAerospace Mechanisms 2020
Andrés Mora VargasPreprint 2020 6 cited
Justin L. KommaCalhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) 2018 3 cited
Maria G. BualatPreprint 2017
Pyojin Kim, Brian Coltin, Oleg Alexandrov, H. Jin KimICRA 2017 35 cited
Marion F. Smith, Chris ProvencherPreprint 2015 1 cited
Maria G. Bualat, Jonathan S. Barlow, Terrence Fong, Chris Provencher +1 moreAIAA SPACE / ASCEND 2015 92 cited
William Su, Jordan Kam, Yixiao Wang, Jianshu ZhouSpace Robotics Workshop @ ICRA 2026 1 cited
Seiko Piotr Yamaguchi, Andres Mora Vargas, Till Eisenberg, Christian Rogon +6 moreiSpaRo 2025 2 cited
Muhtasim Redwan, Md. Nayeem, Tasmir Hossain Zihad, Sheikh Md. Galib Mahim +1 moreInternational Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) 2025
Samantha Chapin, Kenneth Stewart, Roxana Leontie, and Carl Glen HenshawiSpaRo 2025 6 cited
Jordan Kam, Andres Mora, Brian Coltin, In Won Park +3 moreSpace Robotics Workshop @ SMC-IT 2025
Daniel Morton, Rika Antonova, Brian Coltin, Marco Pavone +1 morePreprint 2025 4 cited
Joshua Choi, Thomas M. Howard, Joshua Rosser, Francesca Daszak +3 moreIEEE Aerospace 2025
Isuru Basnayake, John Martinez, Hyeongjun ParkPublished 2025
Brett Sheeran, Alan Richard Wagner, Colin Holbrook, Daniel HolmanAIAA SciTech 2023 1 cited
Dario RuggieroAerotecnica Missili & Spazio 2021 4 cited
Maria G. BualatPreprint 2019
Inwon Park, Trey Smith, John F. LoveSII 2019 3 cited
Jose BenavidesPreprint 2018