For almost two years, we have been the consortium leader in the exciting VaMEx-APO project with our partners at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg-Maximilans-Universität Würzburg and DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz.

• The aim of the VaMEx initiative is to develop an autonomous, heterogeneous swarm of robots to explore the Valles Mariners of the planet Mars. Travelling, walking and flying systems are to use their advantages to jointly investigate a large area with different environmental characteristics.
• The VaMEx-APO project is part of the VaMEx 3 initiative, which aims to develop and demonstrate various key technologies for later exploration on Mars. The core of the VaMEx-APO project is the development of a highly accurate and at the same time fail-safe absolute position and orientation determination system.

All further information on the project can be found here.