Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration

The possibilities for using modular space robot systems are constantly growing. To provide individual solutions for the requirements of different missions, modular reconfigurable building blocks can be used. This paper presents the MODKOM toolbox, including both hardware and software, with the inten...

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Main Authors: Wiebke Brinkmann, Moritz Schilling, Priyanka Chowdhury, Jonas Eisenmenger, Jonas Benz, Malte Langosz, Jieying Li, Erik Michelson, Mehmed Yüksel, Frank Kirchner
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-03-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/90/1/26
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Moritz Schilling
Priyanka Chowdhury
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Jonas Benz
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Jieying Li
Erik Michelson
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description The possibilities for using modular space robot systems are constantly growing. To provide individual solutions for the requirements of different missions, modular reconfigurable building blocks can be used. This paper presents the MODKOM toolbox, including both hardware and software, with the intention to provide reusable components for use in space applications. It is populated with newly developed hardware and software components and their inter-connections. A semantic graph database was used to build the fundamentals of the toolbox, and it enables ontology-based mission planning and reasoning. Some hardware components of the toolbox have already been successfully used for the construction of two different robot systems.
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spelling doaj-art-4cdbd90d142645f5a2dd88cfd9beed592025-08-20T03:24:35ZengMDPI AGEngineering Proceedings2673-45912025-03-019012610.3390/engproc2025090026Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary ExplorationWiebke Brinkmann0Moritz Schilling1Priyanka Chowdhury2Jonas Eisenmenger3Jonas Benz4Malte Langosz5Jieying Li6Erik Michelson7Mehmed Yüksel8Frank Kirchner9DFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyRobotics Research Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyRobotics Research Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyDFKI GmbH, Robert Hooke Str.1, 28359 Bremen, GermanyThe possibilities for using modular space robot systems are constantly growing. To provide individual solutions for the requirements of different missions, modular reconfigurable building blocks can be used. This paper presents the MODKOM toolbox, including both hardware and software, with the intention to provide reusable components for use in space applications. It is populated with newly developed hardware and software components and their inter-connections. A semantic graph database was used to build the fundamentals of the toolbox, and it enables ontology-based mission planning and reasoning. Some hardware components of the toolbox have already been successfully used for the construction of two different robot systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/90/1/26space roboticssystem designmodularityreconfigurabilitysoftwarehardware
spellingShingle Wiebke Brinkmann
Moritz Schilling
Priyanka Chowdhury
Jonas Eisenmenger
Jonas Benz
Malte Langosz
Jieying Li
Erik Michelson
Mehmed Yüksel
Frank Kirchner
Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
Engineering Proceedings
space robotics
system design
modularity
reconfigurability
software
hardware
title Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
title_full Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
title_fullStr Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
title_full_unstemmed Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
title_short Toward Sustainable Space Exploration: Designing an AI-Powered Modular Toolbox for Future Planetary Exploration
title_sort toward sustainable space exploration designing an ai powered modular toolbox for future planetary exploration
topic space robotics
system design
modularity
reconfigurability
software
hardware
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/90/1/26
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