Publications

Here we will list and where possible make available full papers of all publications related to the PROACT Project.

Govindaraj S., Gancet J., Urbina D., Brinkmann W., Aouf N., Lacroix S., Wolski M., Colmenero F., Walshe M., Ortega C., Bodo B.,  “PRO-ACT: PLANETARY ROBOTS DEPLOYED FOR ASSEMBLY AND CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE LUNAR ISRU AND SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURES”, Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), 27 – 28 May 2019. ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

PRO-ACT was presented at the European Robotics Forum 2019, Bucharest, Romania, in the Space & Mining topic group.

PRO-ACT poster presented at the ESA & Luxembourg Space Agency, SPACE RESOURCES UTILISATION workshop – A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP TO DEFINE OUR COMMON GOAL AND CONCRETE NEXT STEPS, 10 & 11 OCTOBER 2019, LUXEXPO, LUXEMBOURG

Brinkmann, Wiebke, Florian Cordes, Christian Ernst Siegfried Koch, Malte Wirkus, Raul Dominguez, Alexander Dettmann, Thomas Vögele, and Frank Kirchner. “Space Robotic Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the European Space Technology Roadmap.“ Space Tech – Industry Conference, Bremen, Germany.

Lopes, Luís et al. “PRO-ACT – Planetary Robots Deployed for Assembly and Construction of Future Lunar ISRU and Supporting Infrastructures.” EGU 2020, online, 4–8 May, 2020.

Lopes, Luís et al. “Analogue lunar research for commercial exploitation of in-situ resources and planetary exploration – Applications in the PRO-ACT project“, European Geoscience Union conference (EGU 2021), 19–30 April 2021.

Shashank Govindaraj, et al., Multi-Robot Cooperation for Lunar Base Assembly And Construction, October 2020, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2020), Pasadena, California.

Masoud S. Bahraini, Nabil Aouf, Axel Beauvisage and Shashank Govindaraj, “Distributed Cooperative Visual Odometry for Planetary Exploration Rovers”, ESA GNC Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems 21st – 25th June 2021, Virtual (Sopot, Poland).Session: Sensors Data Fusion and Autonomous Navigation