Thales Alenia Space in France (Project Coordinator) Website: www.thalesaleniaspace.com |
ABOUT THALES ALENIA SPACE Drawing on over 40 years of experience and a unique combination of skills, expertise and cultures, Thales Alenia Space delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Governments and private industry alike count on Thales Alenia Space to design satellite-based systems that provide anytime, anywhere connections and positioning, monitor our planet, enhance management of its resources, and explore our Solar System and beyond. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of approximately 1.85 billion euros in 2020 and has around 7,700 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US. |
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Website: https://www.gmv.com |
Established in 1984, GMV Innovating Solutions is a private capital technology business group with an international presence in more than 10 countries and 2300 employes. At GMV, we provide space agencies, satellite operators, and clients in the space sector from around the world the best high-tech solutions to meet your needs and obtain excellent results. We have consolidated ourselves as a proactive and reliable partner, offering applications and complex hardware and critical software solutions and services to overcome the challenges faced by the space sector. We design ground and flight systems for a wide variety of space missions that provide positioning, navigation, communication, security, science, exploration, and weather information. GMV has a long experience in managing research activities, especially in the area of robotics and GNC. Within the SRC on Space Robotic technologies previous call, GMV has coordinated ESROCOS (OG1), ERGO (OG2) and FACILITATORS (OG6) projects in the first part of the cluster. In the second one, was coordinating ADE (OG10) and was participating also in EROSS (OG7), PROACT (OG11) and MOSAR (OG9) projects. Finally, in the third part, GMV participates in CoRoB-X, EROSS+ and PERIOD projects, taking on responsibility for critical systems like the robotics components’ autonomy systems and cooperation capability, while also contributing towards the guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems. In addition, GMV has an unmatchable record/history of leading/participating in ESA TRP activities, devoted to Technology Research. The company is a recognized European leader in the development of space GNC and robotics technologies, and particularly in ground validation of those technologies. In EROSS+ project GMV contributes to support the integration of the building blocks from previous call, i.e. ESROCOS (OG1), ERGO (OG2). GMV defines the Platform Image Processing for long and short range to provide processed measurements to Platform Navigation function, defines the Platform Guidance function, reviews ESA ASSIST design as docking and refuelling interface device and support the orbital rendezvous testing activities in GMV Platform-art©. |
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Website: https://dlr.de
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The German Aerospace Center, DLR, is the national aeronautics and space research Centre of Germany, as well as its space agency, and has approximately 10000 employees at 34 locations. DLR’s extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport and security is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (RM) is located in Oberpfaffenhofen and currently employs about 200 engineers and scientists. RM is the central part of the Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC), a cluster for research and development in the areas of robotics, mechatronics, control and optical systems. The core competence of RMC is the design and realization of complex intelligent mechatronic concepts and systems, human-machine interfaces, as well as interdisciplinary virtual design, and computer-aided optimization and simulation. In EROSS+, DLR is responsible for the specification of the robotic sub-system in phases A and B1, and leads the demonstration of various manipulation tasks using the robotic arm CAESAR (Compliant Assistance and Exploration SpAce Robot) developed at DLR. |
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Website: https://piap.space |
PIAP Space is a spin-off company for space sector activities, set up by PIAP Institute who is an active global market player offering industrial and counter-terrorism robotics solutions. Our team has conducted space projects for almost 10 years. We are focused in developing competences and technologies in areas like: Mechanical Ground Support Equipments, Mechanics and Robotic Manipulators & End-Effectors for On Orbit Satellite Servicing. In the EROSS project PIAP Space is responsible for contact sensors and force/torque sensors development, as well for mechanical configuration & housing. PIAP Space also develops the gripper and the end-effector for EROSS project. |
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Website: https://www.sintef.no |
SINTEF is Scandinavia's largest independent research organisation and is a nonprofit research foundation. It employs 2100 people most of whom are located in Trondheim and Oslo (Norway). More than 90% of its annual turnover derives from contract research for industry and the public sector in Norway and internationally, and it receives minimal state funding (around 6%). SINTEF is multidisciplinary, with international top-level expertise in a wide range of technological and scientific disciplines, medicine and the social sciences. The company vision is "technology for a better society", and it is an important aspect of its societal role to contribute to the creation of more jobs. It acts as an incubator, commercializing technologies through the establishment of new companies. The fully owned legal entity SINTEF AS by its institute SINTEF Digital, represents SINTEF in the consortium with the Department of Smart Sensor Systems and the Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics. SINTEF’s role in EROSS will be to maintain and further develop the sensor suite software of I3DS and prepare it for the route to space by participating to the hardware design and implementation with I3DS integration. SINTEF is also responsible of the overall EROSS Software. |
