Coordinated by GMV and funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, ADE (Autonomous DEcision Making in very long traverses) is part of the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in space robotics technology

The five weeks of trials put through its paces the robotics technology developed outside the laboratory, performing an almost 500-m autonomous traverse in less than 3 hours, using image-based autonomous navigation

After featuring prominently in the program’s first and second phases, GMV will be acting as a strategic partner of the projects playing a key role in all third-phase projects of the H2020 Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) on space robotics technologies

In the three new robotics projects GMV will be taking on responsibility for the robotics components’ autonomy systems and cooperation capability, and will also contribute to the guidance, navigation and control systems (GNC)

The aim is to take one more stride towards a final demonstration of the orbital mission and set up a robotic collaboration demonstrator in a Mars-like terrain scenario