Autonomous Non-wheeled all-Terrain rover (ANT)

The Autonomous Non-wheeled all-Terrain (ANT) rover will be a rover system tasked to explore difficult-to-access areas of the Moon and Mars such as high inclination slopes, cliffs, craters, caves and lava tubes. The objective of the activity is to develop the ANT navigation system for legged robots. It will be able to perceive the terrain, to plan a path to a desired goal and to control the path execution while traversing unconsolidated, inclined, and rugged terrain. A modular generic approach is being developed to exploit the potential of robots with four (quadrupeds) as well as with six legs (hexapods). Prime: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany. Partners: IIT, Italy and Airbus, UK., Germany. Partners: IIT, Italy and Airbus, UK.

Project funding: European Space Agency (ESA)