The present sequential mission oriented approach to robotic planetary exploration, could be changed to an infrastructure building approach where a robotic presence is permanent, self sustaining and growing with each mission. We call this self-sustaining robotic ecology approach robosphere and discuss the technological issues that need to be addressed before this concept can be realized. One of the major advantages of this approach is that a robosphere would include much of the infrastructure required by human explorers and would thus lower the preparation and risk threshold inherent in the transition from robotic to human exploration. In this context we discuss some implications for space architecture.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Robosphere: Self Sustaining Robotic Ecologies as Precursors to Human Planetary Exploration


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Space 2003 ; 2003 ; Long Beach, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Robosphere: Self-Sustaining Robotic Ecologies as Precursors to Human Planetary Exploration

    Colombano, S. / American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003



    Robosphere1: Building A Self-Sustaining Robotic Ecology for Mars Exploration

    Colombano, Silvano P. / Clancy, Daniel | NTRS | 2002