First Results of the ROBEX Analogue Mission Campaign: Robotic Deployment of Seismic Networks for Future Lunar Missions
2017
This paper presents first results of the analog mission
campaign which was performed between the 12th of
June and the 10th of July 2017 on Mount Etna in
Europe, Italy. The aim of the ROBEX demonstration
mission is to test and validate a complex robotic
mission. This includes highly autonomous tasks with
supervision from scientists to guarantee
measurement of real and scientifically relevant
data. The main scientific objective of the ROBEX
mission, the detailed analysis of the lunar crust
layers, that is replaced by the analysis of Etna lava
layers in the demo mission, has been guiding the
developments of the last four years.
As key missions, a seismic network has been
deployed and a seismic profile measurement has
been conducted using only robots on the landing site.
Additional experiments consisted of long term
autonomous navigation, multi-robot mapping and
exploration of craters as well as experiments with the
aim of geological analyses and probe selection.
During the one month analog campaign, a realistic
mission scenario has been built up, including a
control station approximately 30 km from the
remote site.
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