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PRoVisG: Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing
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What do we do
- Combine expertise in Computer Vision for Planetary Surfaces
- Enhance scientific exploitation
- Generate high-level tools
- Test & demonstrate
- Let the Public know
Robotic Missions on Mars & Moons
- Penetrators
- Landers
- Rovers for close-range
- Aerobots for medium range
- Science & exploration
- Europe: Agencies, ESA Primes, Narrow community
- EC initiated unification JUST IN TIME
Left: Aerobot tested at ESTEC Planetary Test Bed (PTB). Right: Reconstructed scene using Aerobot Camera (Images courtesy of SciSys Ltd., UK and Joanneum Research, A)
The Principle: View the Surface and Calculate Something…
Technology and Expertise
Missions:
- EADS Astrium Space(UK)
- SciSys(UK)
- Jet Propulsion Lab (USA)
- Surrey Space Centre (UK)
- CNES (F)
Planetary Science:
- MSSL/UCL (UK)
- DLR (UK)
- Univ. Leicester (UK)
Computer Vision & Sensors:
- Joanneum Research (A)
- Czech Technical University (CZ)
- TU Berlin (D)
- Ohio State University (USA)
- CSEM (CH)
Robotics:
- Aberystwyth University (UK)
Results 2009…2011
- 3D Vision Toolbox: Multi-source, Processing, GIS: Presentation
- International contests
- Spin-off technology
- Processed planetary data
- Public field test
- 2 Summer Schools
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