ANT
Autonomous Non-wheeled all-Terrain rover
Scientific Leader:
Project leader:
Contact person:
Navigation system for legged robots for traversing unconsolidated, inclined, and rugged terrain.
| Duration: | 27.01.2021 till 26.10.2022 |
| Donee: | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH |
| Sponsor: | ESA |
| Grant number: | ESA AO/1-10289/20/NL/RA |
| Partner: |
Italian Institute of Technology |
| Application Field: | Space Robotics |
| Related Projects: |
Entern
Environment Modelling and Navigation for Robotic Space-Exploration
(10.2014-
12.2017)
VIPE
Exploration in terrain difficult to access (e.g. Valles Marineris) using visual and proprioceptive data.
(05.2015-
06.2018)
|
| Related Robots: |
CREX
Crater Explorer
|
Project details
The objective of the activity is to develop the ANT navigation system for legged robots. It will be able to perceive the terrain, to plan a path to a desired goal and to control the path execution while traversing unconsolidated, inclined, and rugged terrain. A modular generic approach is being developed to exploit the potential of robots with four (quadrupeds) as well as with six legs (hexapods).
Videos
ANT: Navigation system enables walking systems to explore rough inclined terrain
ANT: Novel Navigation System for Multi-legged Robots, second phase
ANT: Novel Navigation System for Multi-legged Robots
Publications
2022
Towards a Generic Navigation and Locomotion Control System for Legged Space Exploration
In Proceedings of the Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, (ASTRA-2022), 01.6.-02.6.2022, Nordwijk, ESA, 2022. ESA.
