ADE (OG10)

Autonomous Decision Making in Very Long Traverses

Within the project ADE – Autonomous Decision Making a rover system is developed that is capable of choosing scientifically interesting sites during a long distance autonomous traverse on celestial bodies. Main goal of the project is the conduction of a long autonomous traverse (>1km) in natural, Mars or Moon analogue terrain.

Duration: 01.02.2019 till 30.04.2021
Donee: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
Sponsor: European Union
Grant number: Grant-No: GA 821988
Partner: GMV Aerospace and Defence SA, Spain
Joanneum Research, AustriaThales Alenia Space Italia SPA, Italy
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany
Trasys International EEIG, Belgium
Magellium SAS, France
Airbus Defence and Space Ltd, Great Britan
University of Oxford, Great Britain
King's College London, Great Britain
Universite Grenoble Alpes, France
GMV Innovating Solutions Ltd, Great Britain
Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Universita Del Salento, Italy
Application Field: Space Robotics
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Rover SherpaTT during a 1km autonomous traverse in a field test in Morocco End of 2018. SherpaTT is aspired to be the rover used in the ADE project, the results from the Morocco field trial will be extended with ADE.(Photo: Thomas Frank, DFKI GmbH)

Videos

ADE: Final field testing in Wulsbüttel with DFKI rover SherpaTT

As part of the ADE space project funded by the EU and coordinated by GMV Aerospace and Defence, the rover SherpaTT of the DFKI Robotics Innovation Center had to traverse a long distance autonomously while reacting to unexpected incidences. Originally planned to take place on Fuerteventura, the tests had to be moved to the sand well near Wulsbüttel due to the pandemic. Almost like Spain, but slightly different weather conditions.

ADE(OG10): Autonomous Space Robotics Navigation Tests with rover SherpaTT at Galopprennbahn Bremen

ADE (OG10): Autonomous Decision Making in Very Long Traverses

Copyright: Video courtesy GMV; Music “Battle of the kings” composed by Per Kiilstofte (Machinimasound)

Publications

2021

On the role of feature and signal selection for terrain learning in planetary exploration robots
Angelo Ugenti, Fabio Vulpi, Raúl Domínguez, Florian Cordes, Annalisa Milella, Giulio Reina
In Journal of Field Robotics, n/a, volume n/a, number n/a, pages n/a, Dec/2021.
ADE: Enhancing Autonomy for Future Planetary Robotic Exploration
Jorge Ocón, Iulia Dragomir, Florian Cordes, Raúl Domínguez, Robert Marc, Vincent Bissonnette, Raphael Viards, Anne-Claire Berthet, Giulio Reina, Angelo Ugenti, Andrew Coles, Amanda Coles, Adam Green, Rhys Howard, Lars Kunze
In Proceedings of the 72nd International Astronautical Congress, (IAC-2021), 25.10.-29.10.2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, IAF, Oct/2021. International Astonautical Federation (IAF).

2020

ADE: Autonomous Decision Making in Very Long Traverses
J. Ocón, I. Dragomir, A. Coles, A. Green, L. Kunze, R. Marc, C. J. Perez, T. Germa, V. Bissonnette, G. Scalise, M. Foughali, K. Kapellos, R. Dominguez, Florian Cordes, G. Paar, G. Reina, A. Kisdi
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS '20), (i-SAIRAS-2020), 19.10.-23.10.2020, Online-Conference, CA, n.n., Oct/2020.
Using a Rover's Active Suspension System as a 2-Axis Solar Tracker Mechanism
Georges Labrèche, Florian Cordes
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS '20), (i-SAIRAS-2020), 19.10.-23.10.2020, Online-Conference, o.A., Oct/2020.
Enhancing Mobile Manipulation with Synchronized Arm-Locomotion Control
J. Ricardo Sánchez-Ibáñez, Raúl Domínguez, Florian Cordes, Carlos J. Pérez-del-Pulgar
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS '20), (i-SAIRAS-2020), 19.10.-23.10.2020, Online-Conference, o.A., Oct/2020.
Space Robotics Software Testing with the Hybrid Locomotion Rover SherpaTT and a Validation Toolset
Raúl Domínguez, Florian Cordes, Malte Wirkus, Thomas Vögele
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS '20), (i-SAIRAS-2020), 19.9.-23.10.2020, Online-Conference, o.A., Oct/2020.
Deep Terrain Estimation for Planetary Rovers
Fabio Vulpi, Annalisa Milella, Florian Cordes, Raúl Domínguez, Giulio Reina
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS'20), (iSAIRAS-2020), 19.10.2020, Online-Conference, o.A., Oct/2020.
Terrain sensing for planetary rovers
Giulio Reina, Mauro Dimastrogiovanni, Florian Cordes
In Proceedings of 3rd IFToMM ITALY, (IFIT-2020), 09.9.2020, Online, n.n., Sep/2020.
Terrain Estimation for Planetary Exploration Robots
Mauro Dimastrogiovanni, Florian Cordes, Giulio Reina
In Applied Sciences, MDPI, volume 10, number 17 (6044), pages 1-15, Sep/2020.
Common Data Fusion Framework: An open-source Common Data Fusion Framework for space robotics
Raúl Domínguez, Mark Post, Alexander Fabisch, Romain Michalec, Vincent Bissonnette, Shashank Govindaraj
Editors: David Portugal, Francisco Rico
In International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, SAGE Journals, volume 17, number 2, pages 1-15, Mar/2020.

2019

Space Robotic Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the European Space Technology Roadmap
Wiebke Brinkmann, Florian Cordes, Christian Ernst Siegfried Koch, Malte Wirkus, Raúl Dominguez, Alexander Dettmann, Thomas Vögele, Frank Kirchner
In Proceedings of Space Tech Conferences, 19.11.-21.11.2019, Bremen, o.A., 2019.

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