🚀 Mars mission made in Germany – with navigation from ANavS. ➡️ As part of the VaMEx-3 research project, German scientists and engineers spent three weeks testing a Mars mission – in the middle of Bavaria, in the Langenaltheim quarry. Also involved: the Artemis and Crex ground robots – and technology from ANavS.

🎯 Our task:
We are developing visual (camera-based) navigation for the two rovers – including highly accurate and fail-safe position and location determination.

👉 How we do it:
👉 Fusion of GNSS RTK/PPP, LIDAR, inertial sensors and camera SLAM
👉 Use of artificial intelligence for reliable orientation, even in GNSS-free environments
👉 Development of an autonomous system that can operate within a robot swarm

🌌 Project goal: An intelligent robot swarm will search for traces of extraterrestrial life on Mars – and we are providing the navigation technology to make this possible.

We are proud to be part of this ambitious research project and to help shape the future of extraterrestrial mobility.

Even BR covered the innovative VaMEx3 field test in a report: https://lnkd.in/dkJsG_My