The ARCHES space-analogue demonstration mission: Towards heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots for collaborative scientific sampling in planetary …

MJ Schuster, MG Müller, SG Brunner… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Teams of mobile robots will play a crucial role in future missions to explore the surfaces of
extraterrestrial bodies. Setting up infrastructure and taking scientific samples are expensive …

The MADMAX data set for visual‐inertial rover navigation on Mars

L Meyer, M Smíšek, A Fontan Villacampa… - Journal of Field …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Planetary rovers increasingly rely on vision‐based components for autonomous navigation
and mapping. Developing and testing these components requires representative optical …

Distributed stereo vision‐based 6D localization and mapping for multi‐robot teams

MJ Schuster, K Schmid, C Brand… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Joint simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) constitutes the basis for cooperative
action in multi‐robot teams. We designed a stereo vision‐based 6D SLAM system …

German Aerospace Center's advanced robotic technology for future lunar scientific missions

A Wedler, MJ Schuster, MG Müller… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Influence of body waves, instrumentation resonances, and prior assumptions on Rayleigh wave ellipticity inversion for shallow structure at the InSight landing site

B Knapmeyer-Endrun, N Murdoch, B Kenda… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Based on an updated model of the regolith's elastic properties, we simulate the ambient
vibrations background wavefield recorded by InSight's Seismic Experiment for Interior …

Knowledge driven orbit-to-ground teleoperation of a robot coworker

P Schmaus, D Leidner, T Krüger… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The crewed exploration of Moon and Mars requires the construction and maintenance of
infrastructure on the alien surfaces before a crew arrives. Robotic coworkers are envisioned …

Finally! insights into the arches lunar planetary exploration analogue campaign on etna in summer 2022

A Wedler, MG Müller, M Schuster, M Durner… - … Congress, IAC 2022, 2022 - elib.dlr.de
This paper summarises the first outcomes of the space demonstration mission of the
ARCHES project which could have been performed this year from 13 june until 10 july on …

Relocalization with submaps: Multi-session mapping for planetary rovers equipped with stereo cameras

R Giubilato, M Vayugundla, MJ Schuster… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable long term exploration of extreme environments such as planetary surfaces,
heterogeneous robotic teams need the ability to localize themselves on previously built …

ARDEA—An MAV with skills for future planetary missions

P Lutz, MG Müller, M Maier, S Stoneman… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce a prototype flying platform for planetary exploration: autonomous robot design
for extraterrestrial applications (ARDEA). Communication with unmanned missions beyond …

Datasets of long range navigation experiments in a moon analogue environment on mount etna

M Vayugundla, F Steidle, M Smisek… - ISR 2018; 50th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Long range navigation capabilities are crucial to increase the level of autonomy for robotic
planetary exploration missions. As the opportunities to collect data on the surfaces of other …