Open space: A revolution in robots for space exploration
summary
Robotics on missions already run real systems: Lunokhod 1 lasts 321 days, Lunokhod 2 drives 39 km, Perseverance ships ~2 million lines of code, and Ingenuity flies autonomously on Mars; ROS already runs Astrobee (three free-flyers on the ISS since 2019) and ground-side VIPER simulation. The Space ROS initiative led by Blue Origin and NASA aims to produce a certifiable ROS baseline aligned to NPR7150 and DO-178C, supply artifacts and SARIF results, integrate static tools like Cobra and IKOS, and package space modules such as MoveIt2 for reuse on RTEMS/VxWorks-class targets.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to open space
- 3:36History of space robotics
- 10:02ROS in space exploration
- 19:30NASA's Astrobee and ROS
- 22:21Introducing Space ROS
- 35:49Building the Space ROS community
- 37:18Q&A session
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