Sebastien Origer

Current Position

Phd student in Aerospace Science and Technology (41th cycle) at the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Department of Industrial Engineering.

Research topic: "Autonomous Attitude Guidance and Control for Agile Maneuvering Spacecraft"

Previous positions at other organizations/companies

• October 2023 - March 2025: Trainee in AI & Inverse Problems at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Advanced Concepts Team (ACT). Research topics: guidance & control of spacecraft using machine learning, certification of neural networks, comparison of learning paradigms for g&c related tasks.
• September 2021 - December 2021: Intern in AI & Guidance and Control at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Advanced Concepts Team. Research topics: efficient dataset generation method using Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

Education

• September 2020 - April 2023: Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Thesis: Guidance & Control Networks for Time-Optimal Quadcopter Flight
• September 2017 - April 2020: Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Thesis: "Designing a flight simulator for upset prevention & recovery training"

Participation to conferences

• International Symposium of Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD, 2024). Paper: Closing the gap: Optimizing Guidance and Control Networks through Neural ODEs
• International Astronautical Congress (IAC, 2024). Paper: Certifying Guidance & Control Networks: Uncertainty Propagation to an Event Manifold
• SPAICE, 2024. Paper: Guidance and Control Networks with Periodic Activation Functions