Workshop on Space Systems: Towards Long-Term Robotic and Human Presence on the Moon and Mars
Workshop code: 66w6w
Organizing Committee
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, NASA-JPL, Chair
Adrian Stoica, JPL
Hari Das Nayar, JPL
Jim Keravala, OffWorld
Kevin Kempton – NASA-LRC
Terry Fong, NASA -ARC
Neil Y. Lii, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Speakers
Eddie Tunstel, Motiv Space Systems, Senior Past President, IEEE SMCS
Robert Mueller, NASA-KSC
Neil Y. Lii, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Hari Das Nayar, JPL
The IEEE SMC Society (SMCS) includes members who are active in research, system development, and teaching regarding robotic and human-machine systems. Their work often involves conception and application of cybernetics technologies that are long-standing as well as trending, including AI/ML. Some are further involved in the same toward enabling development and execution of lunar/planetary surface missions. The related engineering knowledge foundation exists within the SMCS. The broad scope of the SMCS lends itself well to the endeavor of robotic and human presence on the Moon and Mars. Yet, related SMCS activity has been modest. This talk offers perspectives on the relevance of this workshop’s topical scope to the technical scope of the SMCS and on interests shared by SMCS leaders in fostering growth of its technical activity within the workshop’s scope via engagement with like minds.
Workshop on Space Systems: Towards Long-Term Robo�c and
Human Presence on the Moon and Mars Program:
Monday, October 2nd, 2023 Room: Kohala
10:30am to 11:00am
Keynote : Title: Robotic and Human Presence on the Moon and Mars: An SMC Society perspective By Dr. Edward Tunstel, CTO Motiv Space Systems
Room: Kohala
11:00am to 12:30 noon
Presentation: – 20 minutes for each presenter.
- Towards a Versatile Robotic Mobility Platorm for Planetary Body Exploration Mathew Louis Robinson* (USA), JPL
- Toward Multi User Knowledge Driven Teleoperation of a Robotic Team with Scalable Autonomy
Peter Schmaus*, Nesrine Bati, Adrian Simon Bauer, Jacob Beck, Thibaud Chupin, Emiel Den Exter, Nicole Grabner, Anne Köpken, Florian Samuel Lay, Marco Sewtz, Daniel Leidner, Thomas Krüger, Neal Y. Lii (Germany)
- Robotics Testbed for Autonomous Operations Development
Hari Nayar*, Ashish Goel, Erica Tevere, Anna Boetcher, Erik Kramer, Adriana Daca, Issa Nesnas (USA)
- The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium and Extreme Access Stacy Teng* (USA)
- CYBERNETIC TELEPRESENCE HUMANOID AVATAR ROBOTIC ASTRONAUT
Susan Jewell (USA)
Tuesday, October 3rd , 2023 Room: Kohala
10:30am to 11:00am
Keynote : Title: Mission architecting, technology development, and operations strategies for long-term human and robotic missions to Mars — Lessons learned from the NASA Mars Exploration Program
By Joseph Parrish* (USA), JPL
Room: Kohala
11:00 am to 12:30 noon
Presentations: – 20 minutes for each presenter.
- Summary of the Contracted Deliveries of NASA Payloads to the Moon Via Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), Julie Schonfeld* (USA), NASA
- Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) System Overview and Testng Updates Robert Peter Dillon*, Ryan McCormick, David Newill-Smith, Jennifer Shats, Jaakko Karras, Alex Brinkman, Spencer Backus, Allen Umali, Lacie Fradet, Jacques Laramee, Richard Fleischner (USA)
- CADRE: A Lunar Technology Demo of Multi-Agent Autonomy Enabling Distributed Measurements; Jean-Pierre de la Croix*, Federico Rossi (USA)
- Landing Autonomously on the Moon Using Reference Maps: Needs and Challenges Adnan Ansar*, Yang Cheng (USA)
- Aguya DEM Improvement for Future Lunar Lander Missions Yang Cheng*, Adnan Ansar (USA)
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion – Workshop on Space Systems: Towards Long-Term Robotic and Human Presence on the Moon and Mars (Each panel member is allowed a single Powerpoint to introduce themselves.)
- Adrian Stoica
- Julie Schonfeld
- Stacy Teng
- Adnan Ansar
- Joseph Parrish
- Yang Cheng
- Neal Lii
- Hari Nayar
The IEEE SMC Society (SMCS) includes members who are active in research, system development, and teaching regarding robotic and human-machine systems. Their work often involves conception and application of cybernetics technologies that are long-standing as well as trending, including AI/ML. Some are further involved in the same toward enabling development and execution of lunar/planetary surface missions. The related engineering knowledge foundation exists within the SMCS. The broad scope of the SMCS lends itself well to the endeavor of robotic and human presence on the Moon and Mars. Yet, related SMCS activity has been modest. This talk offers perspectives on the relevance of this workshop’s topical scope to the technical scope of the SMCS and on interests shared by SMCS leaders in fostering growth of its technical activity within the workshop’s scope via engagement with like minds.
The IEEE SMC Society (SMCS) includes members who are active in research, system development, and teaching regarding robotic and human-machine systems. Their work often involves conception and application of cybernetics technologies that are long-standing as well as trending, including AI/ML. Some are further involved in the same toward enabling development and execution of lunar/planetary surface missions. The related engineering knowledge foundation exists within the SMCS. The broad scope of the SMCS lends itself well to the endeavor of robotic and human presence on the Moon and Mars. Yet, related SMCS activity has been modest. This talk offers perspectives on the relevance of this workshop’s topical scope to the technical scope of the SMCS and on interests shared by SMCS leaders in fostering growth of its technical activity within the workshop’s scope via engagement with like minds.
Session 3
Author instructions:
Full paper submissions: Authors that wish to have their papers appear in the SMC 2023 conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore, will need to submit their 4-6 page papers to the SMC 2023 conference using this link (https://conf.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl). Choose “Submit a Contribution to SMC 2023”. Under the first submissions category, choose the “Workshop Session Papers” and use code 66w6w. Full papers will undergo peer-review by a minimum of three reviewers and will be subject to an acceptance rate to be determined by the general SMC 2023 chairs.
Abstract submissions: 1-page abstracts can also be submitted. These will be reviewed by a technical program committee put together by the Workshop organizers. Accepted abstracts will not appear in the SMC 2023 proceedings and will not appear in IEEE Xplore, but they will be listed on the SMC 2023 website for diffusion. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters during the Workshop. Abstracts should provide a title, authors list, technical content, and references within one page. To submit an abstract, authors should choose the “Workshop Session Abstracts” option in the link above and also use code 66w6w.
Topics to be discussed at the workshop will include but not limited to the following;
- Landing Reference Maps for the Moon and Mars
- Terrain Relative Navigation Technologies
- Sample Return missions
- Artemis Program
- NASA Commercial Lunar Payloads Services Missions
- Teleoperations of robots on the Lunar surface from Earth.
- The in-situ operation of robotics system by an astronaut on the Lunar and Martian surface.
- Mission Concepts for long-term human and robotic presence on the Moon and Mars.
- Technologies that will enable cooperative long-term human and robotic presence missions.
- Artificial Intelligence technologies for long-term human and robotic presence on Moon and Mars.
- Systems of systems design of long-term human and robotic presence on the Moon and Mars
- In situ resource utilization (ISRU) technologies and mission concepts
- Moon Astrophysics mission concepts
- Cooperative/Collaborative construction of infrastructure (habitats, networks, power, etc.) on Moon and Mars
- Autonomous Robotic Systems for long-term presence on the Moon and Mars.