Engineering Case Study ESA Automation & Robotics Laboratory “The Vicon system tracks the rover’s navigation trajectories, thus providing an external localization reference. We then analyze that data in order to validate the navigation algorithms and test our onboard localization scheme. In a nutshell, we’re narrowing the difference between how we expect the rover to move and what it actually does.” Pantelis Poulakis, Robotic Systems Engineer, ESA ARL. Image courtesy of ESA - Automation and Robotics Laboratory. Pioneering motion capture since 1984.The European Space Agency was established in 1975 and is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to space research, technology and exploration. Its Automation & Robotics Laboratory (ARL) is currently conducting tests, which will e

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