Space debris is a growing concern for current and future planned missions around Earth. To ensure safe and sustainable operations in Space, current debris mitigation strategies such as Design for demise and End of Life disposal methods are being followed. However, this would be particularly applicable to satellites that are in contact with the ground‐stations on Earth. The major concern stems from the uncontrollable behavior of defunct satellites or debris as this can lead to unsafe conditions of nearby satellites and can also result in catastrophic growth of debris field surrounding Earth.

Thus, in this thesis, the student would be working on establishing an autonomous collaborative debris disposal framework of a non‐cooperative tumbling debris around Earth.

The primary tasks that the student would be expected to complete during this project are:

• Develop and implement a decentralized control scheme to safely detumble the debris

• Perform a collaborative task to remove the target debris from current orbit in a safe and stable manner.

• Conduct simulations in GAZEBO environment with a possibility to perform experiments using aerial platforms after successful completion of simulations.  

• Weekly counselling and guidance meetings with supervisors.