Description du projet
Rover d’exploration avec prise de décision autonome
L’exploration d’environnements inconnus et hostiles pose des défis de taille aux systèmes traditionnels de rovers. Dans ce contexte, le projet ADE financé par l’UE développera un système autonome capable de prendre des décisions critiques sur le terrain. Son objectif consiste à améliorer la collecte de données et permettre l’exploration autonome de la surface sur de longues distances. Le système de rover ADE qui combine des capacités de navigation fiable, de détection cohérente des données et de prise de décision autonome, pourra garantir des réactions rapides, la fiabilité de la mission et l’exploitation optimale des ressources. L’intégration du module de prise de décision autonome, qui modifie de manière autonome le programme du rover lorsqu’il rencontre des caractéristiques intéressantes ou des risques environnementaux, tout en respectant les contraintes du système et les ressources disponibles, est cruciale pour son succès. Le projet porte la promesse d’avancées considérables pour les futurs rovers d’exploration, en augmentant radicalement leurs performances globales.
Objectif
ADE (Autonomous DEcision making) objective is develop and test in a representative analogue a rover system suitable to increase data collection, perform autonomous long traverse surface exploration, guarantee fast reaction, mission reliability, and optimal exploitation of resources. ADE specific objectives (WP full coverage):
- Autonomous long range navigation with high reliability. The ADE rover guidance receives a goal location. It is in charge of planning and executing a safe and efficient route to this goal. It locally re-plan to visit new local goals, enabling the ADE to seize scientific opportunities.
- Consistent data detection / avoiding un-detection of interesting data. Interesting environmental features will be detected by the Opportunistic Science agents. ADE includes two instruments that will generate observation conflicts to be solved by ADAM.
- Autonomous decision making capabilities (E4) in presence of conflicts. Key components of ADE is ADAM, Autonomous decision making Module. It is based on the tight integration/update of robotic technologies including the outputs of OG1-OG4. It will autonomously and safely modify the rover nominal plan in case of identification of interesting feature /environmental hazards in compliance with system constraints, on-board resources and temporal restrictions.
- Demonstration in a representative environment. ADE will be tested in incremental manner till full representative analogue. Its components, ADAM and the ADE avionic, represent a step ahead in technologies applicable to multiple scenarios. The ADE demonstrator represents a breakthrough wrt the way rovers will explore unknown hostile environments, both in space and on Earth. OG10 will maintain OG2.
- Dissemination/communication & Exploitation. Dedicated Plans are elaborated inc. direct consultation with stakeholders.
- Collaboration/harmonization with other Call 2 OGs teams. Through the I/F Engineer. The ADE team is open to share developments in common element
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
28760 Tres Cantos
Espagne