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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Sungmoon Joo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 8 | August 2025 | Pages 1325-1336
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2340171
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This study introduces a novel framework for the robotic decommissioning of nuclear facilities, that focuses on object classification and six degrees of freedom pose estimation from partial-view three-dimensional (3-D) scan data. Addressing the challenge of precise robotic manipulation in environments where acquiring full-scan data is impractical, this framework leverages a deep neural network for initial pose estimation, subsequently refined by a modified iterative closest point algorithm. Our method demonstrates high accuracy in identifying scanned objects and estimating their poses from partial-view scans, validated through experiments with 3-D printed mock-ups. This advancement highlights the potential for significantly enhancing robotic automation in nuclear decommissioning and related fields.