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Forward Acquisition of Soil and Terrain for Exploration Rover
Start date:2011-11-01
End date:2014-11-30
Project Acronym:FASTER
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH | |
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Name:Thomas |
Trippstadter Strasse 67663 KAISERSLAUTERN DEUTSCHLAND Region:RHEINLAND-PFALZ RHEINHESSEN-PFALZ Kaiserslautern, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-421-1784541430 | |
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Description
Objective:
The goal of the FASTER project is to address three key technology developments for planetary exploration: forward looking surface properties characterisation, innovative locomotion system for a scout type rover, and collaborative operation of a mother/scout pair.
1.) The project will develop methods and instrumentation to characterise the properties of planetary surfaces in which robotic rover vehicles operate to be able to anticipate hazards in advance of locomotion and navigation over that surface. By assessing the soil trafficability for a rover, decisions affecting rover safety (avoiding becoming stuck) can be reliably taken and hazards avoided.
2.) The project will look at what innovation can be applied to ensure that the scout rover is able to operate with minimal risk of encountering hazardous situations from which it must recover.
3.) FASTER will explore the feasibility and performance of a mother/scout rover pair combination and develop methods to achieve successful collaborative and autonomous robot operation. The forward looking scout rover will be equipped with a special combination of sensor technologies to acquire soil and terrain information.
This information will allow a risk model to be constructed that indicates the potential hazards that the terrain represents to the following mother rover. Reducing the locomotion and traverse risks using the proposed advances in autonomous mother/scout collaboration will allow mission operators to explore planetary surfaces with increased safety.
It will make possible new levels of autonomous operations by significantly reducing the greatest uncertainty factor namely properties of the surface material on which the rover must operate. This will lead to increased operational efficiency and, when coupled with the increased richness of the surface properties data, will lead to much higher scientific returns per capital investment for each mission.
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Project Details
Start date:2011-11-01
End date:2014-11-30
Duration:37 months
Project Reference:284419
Project cost:2732342 EURO
Project Funding:1985541 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-SPACE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Research and development for space exploration
Contract type:Small or medium-scale focused research project
URL:http://www.faster-fp7-space.eu/
Subject index:Scientific Research
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY OF SURREY | |
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Name:Maria |
Stag Hill GUILDFORD UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) SURREY, EAST-WEST SUSSEX Surrey |
| Tel:+44-1483683498 | |
| Fax:+44-1483683791 | |
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| URL:http://www.surrey.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:SPACE APPLICATIONS SERVICES NV | |
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Name:Francoise |
Leuvensesteenweg ZAVENTEM BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:VLAAMS GEWEST VLAAMS BRABANT Halle-Vilvoorde |
| Tel:+32-27215484 | |
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| URL:http://www.spaceapplications.com | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:ASTRI POLSKA SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA | |
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Name:Agata |
ULICA BARTYCKA WARSZAWA POLSKA Region:MAZOWIECKIE M. Warszawa |
| Tel:+48-224966213 | |
| Fax:+48-228403131 | |
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| Organization name:ASTRIUM LIMITED | |
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Name:Matthew |
Gunnels Wood Road STEVENAGE UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) BEDFORDSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE Hertfordshire |
| Tel:+44-1438773180 | |
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| Organization name:LIQUIFER SYSTEMS GROUP GMBH | |
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Name:Barbara |
OBERE DONAUSTRASSE 97-99 1 VIENNA ÖSTERREICH Region:OSTÖSTERREICH WIEN |
| Tel:+43-12188505 | |
| Fax:+43-121885056 | |
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| URL:http://www.liquifer.at | Organization Type: |
Record control number:100849
