Virtual Mars Landscape Enables Testing of Robot Swarms
square kilometers of the surface of Mars. In addition, they are allowing several research groups to test the collaboration of space robots in swarms in this virtual world. Largest Canyon Landscape in the [...] as part of the VaMEx-VTB project. The abbreviation stands for “Valles Marineris Explorer – Virtual Test Bed”; this is a preparatory mission study with the aim of investigating the “Mariner Valleys” on Mars [...] different robot types that complement each other, for example robots that walk, drive, or fly. However, testing this collaboration in a realistic way is difficult on Earth because the environmental conditions