Ignasi Lluch i Cruz
Advisor: Alessandro Golkar
Thesis: A Framework for Architecting Federations of Engineering Systems
Ignasi was a researcher and PhD candidate in distributed space systems in the Strategic Innovation Research Group (SIRG), from 2013 to 2017.
In 2011, Ignasi received his degree in Aerospace engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He developed his master thesis on novel satellite navigation systems while working at GMV Aerospace Barcelona. Afterwards, he joined the European Space Agency at ESTEC to work in the Galileo Evolutions Team. There, he worked in the future of Galileo navigation constellation by developing tools to simulate end-to-end system performance of novel navigation architectures.
In 2013 Ignasi joined Skoltech’s PhD program and spent 4 months as visiting researcher at MIT. In Skoltech’s Space Center, Ignasi led the systems engineering efforts in high altitude ballooning campaigns for demonstration of meshed network technologies and augmented earth observation systems. Ignasi was also involved in EC H2020’s projects for distributed satellite earth observation concepts.
When he is not in the office, he may be playing guitar or hiking.
Federated Satellite Systems (FSS), distributed space systems design, systems architecture for systems of systems, Space networking technologies, spacecraft systems modelling.
Lluch, I.; Golkar, A., “Satellite-to-satellite coverage optimization approach for opportunistic inter-satellite links,” in Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-13, 1-8 March 2014
doi: 10.1109/AERO.2014.6836307
Lluch, I.; Grogan, P.T.; Pica, U.; Golkar, A., “Simulating a proactive ad-hoc network protocol for Federated Satellite Systems,” in Aerospace Conference, 2015 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-16, 7-14 March 2015 doi: 10.1109/AERO.2015.7118984
Ignasi Lluch and Alessandro Golkar. “Design Implications for Missions Participating in Federated Satellite Systems”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 52, No. 5 (2015), pp. 1361-1374. doi: 10.2514/1.A33172
Alessandro Golkar, Ignasi Lluch i Cruz, “The Federated Satellite Systems paradigm: Concept and business case evaluation”, Acta Astronautica, Volume 111, June–July 2015, Pages 230-248, ISSN 0094-5765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.02.009.
Ignasi Lluch i Cruz and Alessandro Golkar, “Resource Balancing Analysis of Federated Satellite Systems,” in AIAA SPACE 2014 Conference and Exposition, 0 vols., American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014.
Akhtyamov R., Lluch I., Lisi M., Golkar A., “An implementation of software defined radios for federated aerospace networks: informing satellite implementations using an inter-balloon communications experiment”, 8th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying, Delft, The Netherlands, June, 2015
Akhtyamov R., Lluch I., Golkar A., “Software defined radio implementations of a negotiator node testbed for federated satellite systems”, 67th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2015.
Lluch I., Golkar A., “Adopting the federated Satellite systems paradigm for Earth observation: an architecting framework”, 67th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2015. (OHB Innovative Earth Observation Missions Award)