THE MICRO ROSA2 ACTIVITY - CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PLANS

European Space Agency (ESA) funded a GSTP activity “Micro Robots for Scientific Applications 2” (MroSA2). The project came to a conclusion on November 2001, when the Final Presentation was held at the ESA ESTEC. The goal of the activity was to design and develop a Robotic Sampling System (RSS) a prototype of a tracked rover based drilling system designed to perform deep sampling, up to two meters, on a planetary surface. Main work was done in concentrating to the Martian environment, although the concept is generic to any celestial body that is possible for landing and which offers adequate anchoring for drilling purposes.