Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL)

My primary research was conducted as a graduate student researcher at SISL, advised by Mykel Kochenderfer.

Satellite Task Planning

My main body of graduate research was on satellite task planning. My primary contribution was developing a maximum-independent set based approach for quickly and rapidly solving [1,2,3].

  1. Duncan Eddy, Task Planning for Earth Observing Satellite Systems, PhD Thesis, 2021.

  2. Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer, A Maximum Independent Set Method for Scheduling Earth-Observing Satellite Constellations, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2021.

  3. Duncan Eddy and Mykel Kochenderfer, Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Objective Satellite Task Planning, IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2020.

Ground Station Optimization

Recently, I have been working on optimizing ground station networks for Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite constellations. This work is currently under review [4].

  1. Duncan Eddy, Michelle Ho, and Mykel Kochenderfer, Optimal Ground Station Selection for Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites, (Submitted) *IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025.