First Results of the ROBEX Analogue Mission Campaign: Robotic Deployment of Seismic Networks for Future Lunar Missions

摘要

This paper presents first results of the analog missionudcampaign which was performed between the 12th ofudJune and the 10th of July 2017 on Mount Etna inudEurope, Italy. The aim of the ROBEX demonstrationudmission is to test and validate a complex roboticudmission. This includes highly autonomous tasks withudsupervision from scientists to guaranteeudmeasurement of real and scientifically relevantuddata. The main scientific objective of the ROBEXudmission, the detailed analysis of the lunar crustudlayers, that is replaced by the analysis of Etna lavaudlayers in the demo mission, has been guiding theuddevelopments of the last four years.udAs key missions, a seismic network has beenuddeployed and a seismic profile measurement hasudbeen conducted using only robots on the landing site.udAdditional experiments consisted of long termudautonomous navigation, multi-robot mapping andudexploration of craters as well as experiments with theudaim of geological analyses and probe selection.udDuring the one month analog campaign, a realisticudmission scenario has been built up, including audcontrol station approximately 30 km from theudremote site.