SpaceBot Camp - Autonomous Sample-Return Mission

Responsibilities

• plugin for on-board process-/component-manager to publish process- and system health state over uni-directional channel (UDP-multicast) in order to monitor the robot given the communication constraints by the competition rules
• CLI-tools for displaying system status and interface for remote-control of the on-board process-/component-manager in order to (re)start/stop processes and subsystems

Further Material

• [1] Success of the RMExplores! Team at SpaceBot Camp 2015
• [2] Schuster, Martin J., Christoph Brand, Sebastian G. Brunner, Peter Lehner, Josef Reill, Sebastian Riedel, Tim Bodenmüller et al. “The LRU rover for autonomous planetary exploration and its success in the SpaceBotCamp challenge.” In 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), pp. 7-14. IEEE, 2016.

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Technology Stack: Python, Bash, UDP, Gtk

Work Affiliation: German Aerospace Center (DLR), in collaboration with the whole SpaceBot Camp team