On November 12 the company’s Tres Cantos (Madrid) head office hosted the presentation of the results of the preliminary design review (PDR) of the H2020, OG10-ADE project (Autonomous Decision Making in very long traverses).

By passing this milestone ADE has completed this phase of defining ADE’s common architecture. The team also presented the scenario for the ADE demonstrator and identified the necessary equipment and testing components.

The ADE OG10 project, together with PRO-ACT, is one of the 5 projects selected for European-Commission funding in the second phase of the space robotics Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), the European Commission's biggest H2020 robotics program.

The main purpose of this second SRC phase is to integrate the common technology building blocks previously developed in on-ground demonstrators in the first phase. This will help to drive the development of future space robotics applications for orbital and planetary use (phase 0/A studies) to meet not only the future needs of space exploration and exploitation but also potential spin-off and spill-over effects to other areas of robotics activity on Earth, such as agriculture, the automotive sector, the nuclear or underwater sector.

GMV is priming the 12-partner, Europe-wide ADE project (OG10). This project, building on the autonomy framework developed within ERGO (OG2), aims to develop and test a rover capable of obtaining opportunistic scientific data and performing long-range journeys (building up to 1 km in under 6 hours). In planetary exploration missions ADE will guarantee a quick response and optimum use of onboard resources, combining the capabilities of PERASPERA's first call building blocks: OG1-ESROCOS (European Space Robot Control Operating System) OG2-ERGO (European Robotics Goal-Oriented Autonomous Controller), OG3-InFuse (data fusion) and OG4-I3DS (sensors).

GMV coordinated the meeting, attended by members of PSA, the consortium and the European Commission.