Creating functional and intelligent robotic agents

Planetary Robots Deployed for Assembly and Construction of Future Lunar ISRU and Supporting Infrastructures.

What is Pro-Act?

PRO-ACT – robotic collaboration for ISRU

The Horizon 2020 EU-funded PRO-ACT project will aim to develop and demonstrate a cooperation and manipulation capabilities between three robots for assembling an in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) plant. The project will build on the technological results of other project outcomes from the PERASPERA project and its operational grants (OGs). PRO-ACT will show how robot working agents, or RWAs, can work together collaboratively to achieve a common goal.

Our first goal:

Enabling human settlement on the moon by assembling an ISRU plant from building blocks

Our Second Goal:

Partial assembly of a ‘mobile gantry’ which can be used for 3D printing building elements for human habitats and lifting heavy loads

Our Third Goal:

Effectively integrate existing software and hardware robotics building blocks to create functional RWAs

Progress in images

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Collaborative Exploration

The Mantis (DFKI) and Veles (PIAP-Space) collaboratively explore a lunar analogue terrain, building a map of the environment, during the remote demonstration.

Mobile Gantry

The Mobile Gantry uses its end effector to move payloads.

Mantis Grabbing

The Mantis can grab and move heavy objects, such as the lander mockup at DFKI.

Panda Robots Collaborating

LAAS-CNRS demonstrated the collaborative manipulation and planning algorithms on two panda robots.

Veles Grading

The Veles prepares the lunar terrain removing obstacles and checking the progress in its map.

Collaborative Exploration

The PRO-ACT project focuses on collaborative operations between a team of robots to efficiently establish a Lunar outpost.

Working together toward common solutions

Group Photo – before social distancing.

This image was taken early in 2020 before social distancing measures were necessary.

Veles in action

Remotely working with Mantis

10th February 2021

Pandemic-proof testing – the challenge for the final demonstration

Despite the widespread impacts of COVID-19 for all consortium partners, the consortium continues to work together. Remote working has been …

29th April 2021

PRO ACT Final Demonstration in March 2021

As the project comes to an end, PRO-ACT partners worked together remotely to demonstrate individual and cooperative robots After 27 …

1st February 2021

PRO-ACT TESTS, SEPTEMBER 2020 AT DFKI

The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen hosted the Phase 1 in-situ integration and testing in September …

384.400 km

Distance between Earth and the Moon

21 billion km

The most distant human-made object is the spacecraft Voyager 1

123

Number of robots on planets other than earth

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