Rughani, R., Barnhart, D., “Sensor Fusion Kalman Filtering for Stability and Control of Satellite Swarms,” 2021 International Space Operations Conference. Cape Town, South Africa, 2021.
Rughani, R., “Relative-Motion Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Spacecraft Swarms (PhD thesis),” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. 2021.
Smat, M., Russo, A., Famutimi, O., Puranik, I., Osmundson, A., Narain, A., Bernacchia, D., Rughani, R., Barnhart, D., “Generation-II Lunar Entry Approach Platform For Research On Ground: a novel concept for low cost, high longevity autonomous operations on the Moon,” 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) – The CyberSpace Edition, 2020.
Rughani, R., Barnhart, D.A., “Safe Construction in Space: Using Swarms of Small Satellites for In-Space Manufacturing,” 34th Annual Small Satellite Conference. Logan, Utah, 2020.
Villafana, L., Yuan, J., Broadus, L., Su, W., Carlton, C., Norrell, A., Rughani, R., Barnhart, D., “MAGNETO: Mapping the Earth’s Magnetic Field at 300km using COTS Sensors,” 34th Annual Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, 2020.
Barnhart, D., Rughani, R. Allam, J., Clarke, K., “Initial Safety Posture Investigations for Earth Regime Rendezvous and Proximity Operations,” Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2020.
Barnhart, D., Rughani, R., “On-orbit servicing ontology applied to recommended standards for satellites in earth orbit,” Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2020.
Rughani R., Barnhart, D.A. “Using Genetic Algorithms for Safe Swarm Trajectory Optimization,” 30th AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. Orlando, Florida, 2020.
Narayanan, S., Barnhart, D., Rogers, R., Dean, G., Bernstein, S., Singh, A., Almeida, O., Sampathkumar, S., Maness, E., and Rughani, R. -USC; Ruffatto, D., Schaler, E., Van Crey, N., Bhanji, A., Junkins, E.- JPL; “REACCH – Reactive Electro-Adhesive Capture ClotH Mechanism to Enable Safe Grapple of Cooperative/Non-Cooperative Space Debris,” 30th AIAA/AAS Space Flight Mechanics Meeting. Orlando, Florida, 2020.
Rughani, R., Villafana, L., Barnhart, D., “Swarm RPO and Docking Simulation on a 3DOF Air Bearing Platform,” 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 2019.