The following technical impacts can be summarized for each component:
ERGO planner (Stellar) and Agent: The combination of the ERGO agent with the ERGO planner, Stellar, provides unique capabilities for handling E1 to E4 levels of commanding
The ERGO agent is able to dynamically generate plans to achieve these goals, deterministically dispatch the associated activities for its execution and is also able to recover from off-nominal conditions, performing re-planning when needed. Reactive and deliberative capabilities are handled in a harmonized fashion.
All Four different levels of commanding are possible, which is a break-through for future space missions
Guidance capabilities: Guidance algorithms in ERGO have allowed to drive autonomously the SherpaTT planetary rover for more than 1.3 km during 8.5 hours in a Martian-like scenario using algorithms suited by design for flight application.
FDIR techniques: FDIR components developed in ERGO aim to guarantee the safe functioning of a system with respect to desired timed RAMS properties and despite of the errors occurred. The ERGO approach has the following features: (i) it is generic enough to be applied on different types of systems with respect to safety requirements, (ii) it obtains correct-by-construction components due to the use of formal methods and (iii) its analysis steps can be automated.
Scientific detection: GODA, the ERGO scientific detector can be easily tailored to detect any serendipitous event from the identification of patterns in camera images. This capability, combined with the planning capabilities, allows to perform opportunistic science, a feature that is particularly important in future planetary exploration missions
Others features that can provide a high impact:
It provides an integrated solution that can be used either separately or in combination, and therefore future users will be able to choose those components required for their developments, not forcing the user to select all of them.
ERGO facilitates an integration of a system conceived from the beginning to be flight-certified. Components have been designed taking into consideration a number of rules that would simplify future efforts to increase its TRL.
Usage of a model-driven approach via TASTE that allows the abstraction of the user from the implementation details of the underlying platform and guaranteeing the fulfilment of real-time properties.
Furthermore, It is expected that the ERGO technology will also have impact on both economical and societal aspects, creating new market opportunities in Space robotics, strengthening the competitiveness of European Space Robotics in the field of autonomy, and to promote spin-offs for terrestrial applications that can take advantage of this technology
