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Autonomous Non-wheeled all-Terrain rover (ANT)
Wheeled rovers are the clear choice for large traverse exploration of relatively flat terrains.
 
ESA has investigated walking rovers for several years (GSP CESAR, TERP ARAMIE and SPACEWALKER, NPI with DLR and ethz).
Recent advances in leg motoring (serial-elastic actuation) make possible to overcome the issues highlighted in previous ESA work.
There is potential of realising a walking rover for space use in short time.
Germany

T313-603MM

DFKI GmbH
Visualising injector-coupled combustion instability in lox/H2 flames
A recently completed technology activity (ESA-IPL-PTM-sfe-st-LE-2015-510) attempted to systematically test the capability of numerical tools in predicting injection-coupled combustion instability in lres. This type of instability is caused by the coupling of the acoustic pressure field in the combustion chamber to acoustic resonance modes in the injectors. The results demonstrated unsatisfactory predictive capability due to challenges in accurately capturing key aspects in the modelling, such as the distribution of fluid properties throughout the injector-chamber system.
Germany

T419-605MP

DLR - German Aerospace...
De-risk assessment: LESSON - LargE Scale Struts prOductioN

The production process of full-CFRP struts, was before only suitable for low volume production rates (~10 struts/month) and including worker safety critical processes. This approach had to be reviewed and changed to enable production rates >100/month and improve worker safety. The activity focused on the: 

Germany

G617-241TAfl

SPACE STRUCTURES GMBH
Enabling Continuity: from Design to Operations

The D2OPS activity started with the goal of applying MBSE practices to enable digital continuity between design and operations. This study involves the following main activities:

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-04-a

VISIONSPACE TECHNOLOGIES...
Fused Layer Deposition of Lunar Regolith

In order to enable lunar exploration in a sustainable manner, it is necessary to develop technologies that allow the use of lunar resources in-situ. Additive manufacturing techniques are being studied for in-situ resources utilization on the Moon (e.g.: solar or laser sintering). The results of these studies, presented samples with low mechanical properties due to the formation of defects and cracks within the final product.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-01-i

Hochschule Aalen
Additive Manufacturing of pure copper electromagnetic coils
In space, copper coils are used for attitude control of satellites which are called magnetic torquer if a core material is used. The winding of the copper coils of magnetic torquer is a time consuming process, which is difficult to automate, especially because each coil is optimized for a given mission. Consequently, additive manufacturing has high potential to minimize the production time in the future, as well as to optimize winding shapes.
Germany

GT1A-008MS

Zarm Technik AG
Detection and tracking of large marine litter based on high-resolution remote sensing time series, machine learning, and ocean current modelling (TRACE)

The overall goal of the TRACE project was to build a remote sensing based fully automated system for the detection and tracking of large marine litter and accumulation patches of smaller litter items in order to obtain precise and reliable data on floating macro-litter regarding their quantity, position, accumulation zones, material properties, floating depth, and sources. The tracking mechanism has been implemented by coupling the daily satellite-based detections with an oceanographic forecasting system and by a two-step object matching approach.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-01-b

Helmholtz-Zentrum...
Tackling the plastic debris challenge at its source – Linking EO data with multi-source in-situ data for modelling debris pathways from source to sink

Monitoring areas closer to plastic marine litter sources that can be very well targeted, such as rivers and estuarine systems, has the potential to improve mitigation strategies, since they can be spatially focused and even clean-up activities can be more efficient. Recent studies showed that floating plastics emitted from the coast depict a much greater chance to rapidly return to land with most litter stranding within a short distance of the river mouth.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-01-o

RSS
MBSE enhanced by Semantic DataLake integration and Machine Learning

The Integrated MBSE Analytics Platform (IMAP) has been developed in the course of the OSIP [OSIP] MBSE campaign’s MBSE2DataLake project. It demonstrates how MBSE data can be downstreamed from early phases and integrated with Telemetry data or system operations data. Applying MachineLearning analytics and customized visualization on these sets of integrated data provides seamless analysis capabilities and data browsing experience for the user. The approach leads to linking the former separated domains of System Design and AIT/Operations.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-04-h

ScopeSET
Space To Ground ICD Modeling And Generation

The MBSE and Space to Ground ICD activity started with the goal of applying MBSE practices to the preparation of the Space to Ground ICD (S2GICD). This study involves the following main steps:

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-04-e

VISIONSPACE TECHNOLOGIES...

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