
Publications
Journal articles, conference papers, datasets, and dissertation work.
2026


journal
Bridging the Domain Gap for Flight-Ready Spaceborne Vision
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (2026)
@article{park_2026_jsr_spnv3,
author = {Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
title = {Bridging the Domain Gap for Flight-Ready Spaceborne Vision},
journal = {Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets},
volume = {63},
number = {1},
pages = {289-307},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.2514/1.A36130},
}2025

conference
Improved 3D Gaussian Splatting of Unknown Spacecraft Structure Using Space Environment Illumination Knowledge
2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), Sendai, Japan (2025)
@INPROCEEDINGS{park_2025_isparo_3dgs,
author={Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2025 International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)},
title={Improved 3D Gaussian Splatting of Unknown Spacecraft Structure Using Space Environment Illumination Knowledge},
year={2025},
volume={},
number={},
pages={275-282},
doi={10.1109/iSpaRo66239.2025.11437016}
}
2024

conference
Adaptive End-to-End Architecture for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation and Control During Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, 2024/01
@inbook{kruger_2024_scitech_arch,
author = {Justin Kruger and Tommaso Guffanti and Tae Ha Park and Mason Murray-Cooper and Samuel Y. Low and Toby Bell and Simone D'Amico and Christopher W. Roscoe and Jason Westphal},
title = {Adaptive End-to-End Architecture for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation and Control During Rendezvous and Proximity Operations},
booktitle = {AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum},
chapter = {},
pages = {},
doi = {10.2514/6.2024-0430},
}
conference
Rapid Abstraction of Spacecraft 3D Structure from Single 2D Image
AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, 2024/01
@inbook{park_2024_scitech_spe3r,
author = {Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
title = {Rapid Abstraction of Spacecraft {3D} Structure from Single {2D} Image},
booktitle = {AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum},
chapter = {},
pages = {},
doi = {10.2514/6.2024-2768},
}

conference
SPEED-UE-Cube: A Machine Learning Dataset for Autonomous, Vision-Based Spacecraft Navigation
46th Rocky Mountain AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, 2024/02
@inproceedings{park_2024_gnc_speeduecube,
author = {Ahmed, Zahra and Park, Tae Ha and Bhattacharjee, Abhijit and Fazel-Rezai, Reza and Graves, Russell and Saarela, Ossi and Teramoto, Reece and Vemulapalli, Kautilya and D'Amico, Simone},
title = {SPEED-UE-Cube: A Machine Learning Dataset for Autonomous, Vision-Based Spacecraft Navigation},
booktitle = {46th Rocky Mountain AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado},
month = {February 2--7},
year = {2024}
}

conference
Online Supervised Training of Spaceborne Vision during Proximity Operations using Adaptive Kalman Filtering
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan (2024)
@INPROCEEDINGS{park_2024_icra_ost,
author={Park, Tae Ha and D’Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
title={Online Supervised Training of Spaceborne Vision during Proximity Operations using Adaptive Kalman Filtering},
year={2024},
volume={},
number={},
pages={11744-11752},
doi={10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610138}
}

conference
Improving Zero-Shot Abstraction of Unknown Spacecraft 3D Shape as Primitive Assembly
12th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations & Formation Flying (IWSCFF), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2024/12
@INPROCEEDINGS{park_2024_iwscff,
author={Park, Tae Ha and Bates, Emily and D’Amico, Simone},
booktitle={12th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations & Formation Flying, Kaohsiung, Taiwan},
title={Improving Zero-Shot Abstraction of Unknown Spacecraft 3D Shape as Primitive Assembly},
year={2024},
month={December 2-4}
}

dataset
SPE3R: Synthetic Dataset for Satellite Pose Estimation and 3D Reconstruction
Stanford Digital Repository (2024)
@misc{park_2024_sdr_spe3r,
author={Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
title={{SPE3R}: Synthetic Dataset for Satellite Pose Estimation and {3D} Reconstruction},
howpublished={Stanford Digital Repository},
note={Available at \url{https://purl.stanford.edu/pk719hm4806}},
doi={10.25740/pk719hm4806},
year={2024}
}
journal
Robust Multi-Task Learning and Online Refinement for Spacecraft Pose Estimation across Domain Gap
COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists
Advances in Space Research (2024)
@article{park2024spnv2,
title = {Robust multi-task learning and online refinement for spacecraft pose estimation across domain gap},
author = {Tae Ha Park and Simone D’Amico},
journal = {Advances in Space Research},
volume = {73},
number = {11},
pages = {5726--5740},
year = {2024},
note = {Recent Advances in Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying},
doi = {10.1016/j.asr.2023.03.036},
}
thesis
Robust machine learning for vision-based navigation about non-cooperative resident space objects
Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University (2024)
@phdthesis {park_2024_phd,
author = "Tae Ha Park",
title = "Robust machine learning for vision-based navigation about non-cooperative resident space objects",
school = "Stanford University",
year = "2024",
address = "Department of Aeronautics \& Astronautics",
month = "06",
howpublished = "\url{https://purl.stanford.edu/fk941fj3586}"
}2023

journal
Satellite Pose Estimation Competition 2021: Results and Analyses
Acta Astronautica (2023)
@article{park2023spec2021,
title = {Satellite Pose Estimation Competition 2021: Results and Analyses},
author = {Park, Tae Ha and M\"{a}rtens, Marcus and Jawaid, Mohsi and Wang, Zi and Chen, Bo and Chin, Tat-Jun and Izzo, Dario and D’Amico, Simone},
journal = {Acta Astronautica},
volume = {204},
pages = {640-665},
year = {2023},
issn = {0094-5765},
doi = {10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.01.002},
}
journal
Leveraging Neural Network Uncertainty in Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter for Spacecraft Pose Estimation
Advances in Space Research (2023)
@article{pasqualetto2023ukf,
title = {Leveraging neural network uncertainty in adaptive unscented Kalman Filter for spacecraft pose estimation},
author = {Pasqualetto Cassinis, Lorenzo and Park, Tae Ha and Stacey, Nathan and D’Amico, Simone and Menicucci, Alessandra and Gill, Eberhard and Ahrns, Ingo and Sanchez-Gestido, Manuel},
journal = {Advances in Space Research},
volume = {71},
number = {12},
pages = {5061-5082},
year = {2023},
issn = {0273-1177},
doi = {10.1016/j.asr.2023.02.021},
}
journal
Adaptive Neural-Network-Based Unscented Kalman Filter for Robust Pose Tracking of Noncooperative Spacecraft
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (2023)
@article{park2023spnukf,
title={Adaptive Neural-Network-Based Unscented Kalman Filter for Robust Pose Tracking of Noncooperative Spacecraft},
author={Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
journal={Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
volume={46},
number={9},
pages={1671--1688},
year={2023},
doi={10.2514/1.G007387}
}2022

conference
SPEED+: Next-Generation Dataset for Spacecraft Pose Estimation across Domain Gap
IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 2022/03
@inproceedings{park2022speedplus,
author={Park, Tae Ha and M{\"a}rtens, Marcus and Lecuyer, Gurvan and Izzo, Dario and D'Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO)},
title={{SPEED+}: Next-Generation Dataset for Spacecraft Pose Estimation across Domain Gap},
year={2022},
pages={1-15},
doi={10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843439}
}
dataset
SHIRT: Satellite Hardware-In-the-loop Rendezvous Trajectories Dataset
Stanford Digital Repository (2022)
@misc{park2022shirt,
author={Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
title={SHIRT: Satellite Hardware-In-the-loop Rendezvous Trajectories Dataset},
howpublished={Stanford Digital Repository},
note={Available at \url{https://purl.stanford.edu/zq716br5462}},
doi={10.25740/zq716br5462},
year={2022}
}2021

conference
Robotic Testbed for Rendezvous and Optical Navigation: Multi-Source Calibration and Machine Learning Use Cases
2021 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, Virtual, 2021/08
@inproceedings{park2021tron,
author={Park, Tae Ha and Bosse, Juergen and D'Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2021 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, Vitrual},
title={Robotic Testbed for Rendezvous and Optical Navigation: Multi-Source Calibration and Machine Learning Use Cases},
year={2021},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
ISSN={},
month={August 9-11}
}
dataset
Next Generation Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset (SPEED+)
Stanford Digital Repository (2021)
@misc{park2021speedplusdataset,
author={Park, Tae Ha and M{\"a}rtens, Marcus and Lecuyer, Gurvan and Izzo, Dario and D'Amico, Simone},
title={Next Generation Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset ({SPEED}+)},
howpublished={Stanford Digital Repository},
note={Available at \url{https://purl.stanford.edu/wv398fc4383}},
doi={10.25740/wv398fc4383},
year={2021}
}2020

conference
Generative Model for Spacecraft Image Synthesis using Limited Dataset
2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, South Lake Tahoe, California, 2020/08
@inproceedings{park2020speedgan,
author={Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2020 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, South Lake Tahoe, California},
title={Generative Model for Spacecraft Image Synthesis using Limited Dataset},
year={2020},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
ISSN={},
month={August 9-13}
}
journal
Satellite Pose Estimation Challenge: Dataset, Competition Design, and Results
M. Barry Carlton Award
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2020)
@article{kisantal2020spec,
author={Kisantal, Mate and Sharma, Sumant and Park, Tae Ha and Izzo, Dario and M\"{a}rtens, Marcus and D'Amico, Simone},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems},
title={Satellite Pose Estimation Challenge: Dataset, Competition Design and Results},
year={2020},
volume={56},
number={5},
pages={4083-4098},
doi={10.1109/TAES.2020.2989063}
}2019

conference
Towards Robust Learning-Based Pose Estimation of Noncooperative Spacecraft
Best Paper Award
2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Portland, Maine, 2019/08
@inproceedings{park2019odnkrn,
author={Park, Tae Ha and Sharma, Sumant and D'Amico, Simone},
booktitle={2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Portland, Maine},
title={Towards Robust Learning-Based Pose Estimation of Noncooperative Spacecraft},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
ISSN={},
month={August 11-15}
}
dataset
Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset (SPEED)
Stanford Digital Repository (2019)
@misc{sharma2019speed,
author = {Sharma, Sumant and Park, Tae Ha and D'Amico, Sumant},
title = {Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset ({SPEED})},
howpublished = {Stanford Digital Repository.},
note={Available at: \url{https://purl.stanford.edu/dz692fn7184}},
doi={10.25740/dz692fn7184},
year = {2019}
}