On November 8 the H2020 PROACT project successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) on the site of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen (Germany).

PRO-ACT is one of the 5 projects selected for European-Commission funding in the second phase of the space robotics Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), the European Commission's biggest robotics program.

Primed by Space Applications Services (SAS), with the involvement of GMV, the project's main remit is to design, develop and validate a multi-robot and cooperative system to be used on future exploration missions (e.g. the Moon or Mars) for the establishment of a human settlement.

GMV's main role within PRO-ACT (OG 11) is to help to pinpoint the technical requirements, support identification and definition of ESROCOS (OG1) and ERGO (OG 2) results for subsequent adaptation to this project. The company will also be taking part in preliminary design and main detailed design, specifically in multi-agent cooperative mission planning.

In this context PRO-ACT's main goal is to develop and demonstrate manipulation and cooperation capabilities between three robots for assembling an in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) system.