Open RBinsonB opened 1 week ago
@RBinsonB I have been participating in the Gazebo Ionic Test party that launched a few days back. I did see a moon's world already prebuilt and if memory serves, the object interacting in it appeared to show signs of object falling on moon. I will be very interested to help you setting up this demo. I have been working with the mars rover demo for sometime now and have become familiar with the drive and steering control architecture used in that demo.
This issue references https://github.com/space-ros/simulation/issues/22 opened in the
simulation
repo.There is no moon simulation in Space-ROS yet. A moon simulation could be added.
One subject of interest in particular is the exploration of the moon south pole region. Due to the presence of permanently shaded craters, there is a high chance of water ice being present and that could be used to establish a long lasting human presence on the moon (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/space-water-ice-moon-south-pole/).
The NASA VIPER rover mission aimed to explore this area. Unique challenges have to be addressed in this environment and would be interesting to simulate in Space-ROS. In particular the power generation and management:
The issue https://github.com/space-ros/simulation/issues/22 focuses on the different assets to be added for the demo. In the
demos
repo, the following element would be necessary for the demo: