COROB-X: DEMONSTRATION OF A COOPERATIVE ROBOT TEAM IN EXTENSIVE FIELD TESTS
Thomas Vögele, Jorge Ocón, Thierry Germa, Shashank Govindaraj, Carlos J. Perez-del-Pulgar, Fredrik Bakkevig Haugli, Raúl Domínguez, Leon Cedric Danter, Jonathan Babel, Iulia Dragomir, Anne-Claire Berthet, Fabio Polisano, Gonzalo J. Paz-Delgado, Laura M. Mantoani, Eric Törn, Alexander Dettmann, Valérie Ciarletti
In ASTRA Proceedings, (ASTRA-2023), 18.10.-20.10.2023, Leiden, European Space Agency (ESA), 2023. European Space Agency (ESA).
Abstract
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The EU-funded project CoRob-X showcased how hard-to-reach areas on planetary surfaces, such as lava tubes on the moon and mining tunnels on Earth, can be explored with teams of cooperating autonomous robots. Building on technologies funded by the European Commission in a series of R&D projects under the Horizon 2020 Space Strategic Research Cluster, a Lunar Analogue Mission on Lanzarote demonstrated the exploration of a lava tube with a collaborative team of three autonomous rovers. In another field test, the inspection of a mine shaft after an explosion with a rover and a drone was shown. This paper summarizes the objectives and results of the field tests conducted in early 2023 on the Canary Islands and on the Spanish Peninsula.
Keywords
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Planetary Exploration, Lava Tubes, Skylight, Multi-Robot Collaboration, Lunar Analogue Mission, Rappelling, Field Tests, Autonomous Control, Tether Management
Files:
42_Vögele_CoRob-X_Demonstration_of_a_Cooperative_Robot_Team_in.pdf
Links:
https://robotics.estec.esa.int/ASTRA/Astra2023/2023%20PAPERS/42_V%C3%B6gele_CoRob-X%20Demonstration%20of%20a%20Cooperative%20Robot%20Team%20in.pdf
