Satellite Data for Unmanned Mobile Systems

At the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) in Bremen, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) develops mobile robots and intelligent IT solutions for different application areas. For many applications, satellite navigation and satellite-based earth observation data play an important role.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) with locations in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, and Berlin, is one of the largest research centers in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) worldwide.

Mobile Intelligent Robots from Bremen
Headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner, the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) in Bremen develops mobile robotic systems which are able to solve complex tasks on land, in (and under) water, in the air, or in space. The researchers at RIC use design concepts that benefit from the variety of nature: Climbing and walking robots with four, six, or eight legs, snake-like underwater vehicles, and two-armed transport robots often resemble patterns from a natural environment. They combine the advantages of new materials with successfully evolved locomotion patterns and forms.
 

Satellite Data for Navigation and Services
The DFKI Robotics Innovation Center develops and implements intelligent and cognitively adequate robotic systems in a number of application areas. Research and development at RIC is conducted in publicly funded, cooperative R&D projects with national and international research partners as well as in bilateral cooperation with industry.
In many projects, the systems developed at DFKI RIC use satellite-based services, like GPS and GNSS, to support the navigation, positioning, and tracking of manned and unmanned vehicles. In other projects, robotic vehicles operate as in-situ components to augment and verify satellite-based earth observation data, thus enabling improved or even completely new satellite-based services.