Amadee-18-HUSKY

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Summary

The aim of the project is to develop an autonomous robot that supports astronauts in the exploration of planets (Mars) or moons. Tasks of the robot include the autonomous exploration and mapping of the environment around the habitat of the astronauts, the measurement of the radio/WLAN coverage around the habitat and an autonomous transport of material between the habitat and the current workplace of the astronauts.

Objectives

Within the experiment we want to show and prove that an autonomous robot is able to map an unstructured environment automatically, to enrich that map also with additional data like WLAN coverage, and to use this information to perform autonomous transportation and support tasks. In particular we are interested in the question if the navigation methods as well as the supervision methods are mature enough to allow the robot to perform its tasks with no intervention of humans (except receiving transport tasks). That means the robot needs to recognize problems during the mission and cope with them automatically. Therefore, the planned setting of the mission is optimal to work on these research questions. In principle the rover could also be used as a scientific instrument carrier e.g. spectrometers for remote detection of life, including the use as a power supply for the instruments supplied by other participating teams. It can also be used as a mobile transceiver station to temporarily extend the WLAN and/or radio coverage of the AMADEE base station.

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