Bio
Research: On-orbit servicing, autonomous proximity operations, guidance and navigation
Background: Aerospace Engineering at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Collins Aerospace, and Delta Air Lines
Recent Works:
- T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, M. Wilde, and M. Tiwari (2024). Real-time, On-board Spacecraft Feature Detection with Lightweight CNNs. Submitted.
- V. M. Nguyen, E. Sandidge, T. Mahendrakar, and R. T. White (2024). Characterizing Satellite Geometry via Accelerated 3D Gaussian Splatting. Submitted.
- M. J. Meni, T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, M. L. Mayo, and K. Pilkiewicz (2024). Taking a PEEK into YOLOv5 for Satellite Component Recognition via Entropy-based Visual Explanations. AIAA SCITECH Forum 2024.
- M. N. Attzs, T. Mahendrakar, M. Meni, R. T. White, and I. Silver (2023). A comparison of tracking-by-detection algorithms for real-time satellite component tracking. 37th Annual Small Satellite Conference.
- T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, M. Wilde, and M. Tiwari. SpaceYOLO: A Human-Inspired Model for Real-time, On-board Spacecraft Feature Detection. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2023.
- A. Ekblad, T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, M. Wilde, I. Silver, B. Wheeler. Resource-constrained FPGA Design for Satellite Component Feature Extraction. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2023.
- B. Caruso, T. Mahendrakar, V. M. Nguyen, R. T. White, Todd Steffen. 3D Reconstruction of Non-cooperative Resident Space Objects using Instant NGP-accelerated NeRF and D-NeRF. AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Conference 2023.
- T. Mahendrakar, S. Holmberg, A. Ekblad, E. Conti, R. T. White, M. Wilde, and I. Silver. Autonomous Rendezvous with Non-cooperative Target Objects with Swarm Chasers and Observers. AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Conference 2023.
- T. Mahendrakar, M. N. Attzs, J. M. Duarte, A. L. Tisaranni, R. T. White, and M. Wilde. Impact of Intra-class Variance on YOLOv5 Model Performance for Autonomous Navigation around Non-Cooperative Targets. AIAA SCITECH Forum 2023.
- T. Mahendrakar, A. Ekblad, N. Fischer, M. Wilde, R. T. White, B. Kish, and I. Silver. Performance Study of YOLO V5 and Faster RCNN for Autonomous Navigation around Non-Cooperative Targets. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2022.
- T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, M. Wilde, A. Rivikin, J. Cutler, K. Watkins, A. Ekblad, and N. Fischer. Use of artificial intelligence for feature recognition and flightpath planning around non-cooperative resident space objects. AIAA ASCEND 2021.
- T. Mahendrakar, R. T. White, and M. Wilde (2021). Real-time satellite component recognition YOLO V5. 35th Annual Small Satellite Conference.
