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Rhizome: Development of an Autarkic Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation System for Building Off-Earth Habitats

In order for off-Earth top surface structures built from regolith to protect astronauts from radiation, they need to be several metres thick. With support from European Space Agency (ESA) and Vertico, the Technical University Delft (TUD) advanced research into constructing habitats in empty lava tubes on Mars in order to create subsurface habitats. By building below ground level not only natural protection from radiation is achieved but also thermal insulation because the temperature below ground is more stable.

The Netherlands

20-D-S-TEC-03-b

TU DELFT
Artificial Intelligence for Terrain relative Navigation in Unknown Environment (ATENA)

Space missions benefit greatly by the capability of the on-board GNC system to adapt rapidly to unknown environment. Autonomous vision-based navigation is a particular technology under implementation in several ESA missions. One of the most interesting applications in that field is the proximity operations around a small asteroid, like those in HERA.
The goal of this activity was to develop a navigation algorithm with the capability to fly over an unknown terrain and achieve better navigation performances than current vision-based techniques based on unknown feature tracking.

Spain

20-D-O-TEC-01

GMV
Smart Resource Management based on Internet of Things to support Off-Earth Manufacturing of Lunar Infrastructures (SMARTIE)

SMARTIE (Smart Resource Management based on Internet of Things to support Off-Earth Manufacturing of Lunar Infrastructures) is an ESA study to assess the requirements, architecture, hardware and software needs and costs for implementation of an Internet of Manufacturing Things (IoMT) for a lunar human base and associated infrastructure. 

Austria

20-D-S-TEC-03-g

Liquifier Systems Group
Bio-inspired robotic hopper locomotion for navigation through hazardous terrain in extreme space environments

In this report we document the development and deployment of an individual hopper intended as a precursor survery mission for planetary exploration.

UK

20-D-S-HRE-01-a

University of Manchester
DAEDALUS – Descent And Exploration in Deep Autonomy of Lava Underground Structures

The DAEDALUS mission concept aims to explore and characterise the entrance and initial part of lunar lava tubes within a compact, tightly integrated spherical robotic device, with a complementary payload set and autonomous capabilities. The mission concept specifically addresses the identification and characterisation of potential resources for future ESA exploration, the local environment of the Moon's subsurface and its geologic and compositional structure.

Germany

20-D-S-HRE-01-f

Julius-Maximilians...
Skylight

 This study investigated the semi-autonomous exploration of a lunar skylight cavity.

Germany

20-D-S-HRE-01-b

DFKI - Deutsches...
CRANE

CRANE is a study commissioned through the OSIP lunar caves Campaign that examined the possiblity of using a crane to investigate lunar caves via lunar pits. The crane would be mounted on a rover that would need to be placed close to the pit.

Spain

20-D-S-HRE-01-e

University of Oviedo
Real-time optimal control of quadrocopters using deep representations of the optimal state feedback

A major challenge in the field of control is to achieve reliable, aggressive, high-speed control of autonomous vehicles. In space, this may involve spacecraft that need to land under harsh conditions, or even – in an extreme scenario – negotiating asteroid debris fields at high speeds. On Earth, the exemplar task that draws most attention currently is high-speed autonomous flight of drones. The application of optimal control on board limited platforms has been severely hindered by the large computational requirements of current state-of-the-art implementations.

The Netherlands

18-8510

TU DELFT

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