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German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions
The Earth's moon is currently an object of interest of many space agencies for unmanned robotic missions within this decade. Besides future prospects for building lunar gateways as support to human space flight, the Moon is an attractive location for scientific purposes. Not only will its study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33222646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0574 |
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author | Wedler, Armin Schuster, Martin J. Müller, Marcus G. Vodermayer, Bernhard Meyer, Lukas Giubilato, Riccardo Vayugundla, Mallikarjuna Smisek, Michal Dömel, Andreas Steidle, Florian Lehner, Peter Schröder, Susanne Staudinger, Emanuel Foing, Bernard Reill, Josef |
author_facet | Wedler, Armin Schuster, Martin J. Müller, Marcus G. Vodermayer, Bernhard Meyer, Lukas Giubilato, Riccardo Vayugundla, Mallikarjuna Smisek, Michal Dömel, Andreas Steidle, Florian Lehner, Peter Schröder, Susanne Staudinger, Emanuel Foing, Bernard Reill, Josef |
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description | The Earth's moon is currently an object of interest of many space agencies for unmanned robotic missions within this decade. Besides future prospects for building lunar gateways as support to human space flight, the Moon is an attractive location for scientific purposes. Not only will its study give insight on the foundations of the Solar System but also its location, uncontaminated by the Earth's ionosphere, represents a vantage point for the observation of the Sun and planetary bodies outside the Solar System. Lunar exploration has been traditionally conducted by means of single-agent robotic assets, which is a limiting factor for the return of scientific missions. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing fundamental technologies towards increased autonomy of robotic explorers to fulfil more complex mission tasks through cooperation. This paper presents an overview of past, present and future activities of DLR towards highly autonomous systems for scientific missions targeting the Moon and other planetary bodies. The heritage from the Mobile Asteroid Scout (MASCOT), developed jointly by DLR and CNES and deployed on asteroid Ryugu on 3 October 2018 from JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, inspired the development of novel core technologies towards higher efficiency in planetary exploration. Together with the lessons learnt from the ROBEX project (2012–2017), where a mobile robot autonomously deployed seismic sensors at a Moon analogue site, this experience is shaping the future steps towards more complex space missions. They include the development of a mobile rover for JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) in 2024 as well as demonstrations of novel multi-robot technologies at a Moon analogue site on the volcano Mt Etna in the ARCHES project. Within ARCHES, a demonstration mission is planned from the 14 June to 10 July 2021,(1) during which heterogeneous teams of robots will autonomously conduct geological and mineralogical analysis experiments and deploy an array of low-frequency antennas to measure Jovian and solar bursts. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades'. |
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spelling | pubmed-77399032020-12-16 German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions Wedler, Armin Schuster, Martin J. Müller, Marcus G. Vodermayer, Bernhard Meyer, Lukas Giubilato, Riccardo Vayugundla, Mallikarjuna Smisek, Michal Dömel, Andreas Steidle, Florian Lehner, Peter Schröder, Susanne Staudinger, Emanuel Foing, Bernard Reill, Josef Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci Articles The Earth's moon is currently an object of interest of many space agencies for unmanned robotic missions within this decade. Besides future prospects for building lunar gateways as support to human space flight, the Moon is an attractive location for scientific purposes. Not only will its study give insight on the foundations of the Solar System but also its location, uncontaminated by the Earth's ionosphere, represents a vantage point for the observation of the Sun and planetary bodies outside the Solar System. Lunar exploration has been traditionally conducted by means of single-agent robotic assets, which is a limiting factor for the return of scientific missions. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing fundamental technologies towards increased autonomy of robotic explorers to fulfil more complex mission tasks through cooperation. This paper presents an overview of past, present and future activities of DLR towards highly autonomous systems for scientific missions targeting the Moon and other planetary bodies. The heritage from the Mobile Asteroid Scout (MASCOT), developed jointly by DLR and CNES and deployed on asteroid Ryugu on 3 October 2018 from JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, inspired the development of novel core technologies towards higher efficiency in planetary exploration. Together with the lessons learnt from the ROBEX project (2012–2017), where a mobile robot autonomously deployed seismic sensors at a Moon analogue site, this experience is shaping the future steps towards more complex space missions. They include the development of a mobile rover for JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) in 2024 as well as demonstrations of novel multi-robot technologies at a Moon analogue site on the volcano Mt Etna in the ARCHES project. Within ARCHES, a demonstration mission is planned from the 14 June to 10 July 2021,(1) during which heterogeneous teams of robots will autonomously conduct geological and mineralogical analysis experiments and deploy an array of low-frequency antennas to measure Jovian and solar bursts. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades'. The Royal Society Publishing 2021-01-11 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7739903/ /pubmed/33222646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0574 Text en © 2020 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Wedler, Armin Schuster, Martin J. Müller, Marcus G. Vodermayer, Bernhard Meyer, Lukas Giubilato, Riccardo Vayugundla, Mallikarjuna Smisek, Michal Dömel, Andreas Steidle, Florian Lehner, Peter Schröder, Susanne Staudinger, Emanuel Foing, Bernard Reill, Josef German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title | German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title_full | German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title_fullStr | German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title_full_unstemmed | German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title_short | German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
title_sort | german aerospace center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33222646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0574 |
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