Uni’s SnT rover advances to finals in ESA/ESRIC Moon competition

SpaceR, a Space Robotics Research Group of the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust ( SnT ), was selected on 29 March for the finals in the ESA/ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. The primary goal of the challenge is to characterise and locate resources like water and metals with some ground truth measurements and produce an accurate map of a little impact crater a few hundred meters from the lander. The mission control room analyses the images (visual & multi-spectral bands) to make a first resource map to guide future missions. SpaceR, led by Prof. Miguel Olivares Mendez , is part of a the LUnar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation - eXtended Rover (LUVMI-XR) team, in cooperation with Space Applications Services , Dynamic Imaging Analytics , CRPG , imec , LPRC and Tohoku University. Five teams have advanced to the final stage of the competition. The winning rover of the five finalists will be chosen in September 2022, and will explore and prospect on the Moon on an upcoming ESA mission. The challenge of the first stage of the competition involved developing a robot capable of traversing an area of 2500 m˛, across diverse terrain, in order to locate and characterise resources.
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