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30/09/2026

That's a wrap for this year's DSE fair🙌

Once more, the team has had the pleasure of participating in the DSE fair in Aalborg; a great place to meet students who might want to try their own hand at building a rover and a reason to take GORM and THYRA on a field trip🚀

But the fun isn't over yet. If you didn't get the chance to come see us at the fair, we have our Open House tomorrow🎉 and Hack-a-thon later in October

28/09/2026

At Space Robotics we're always up for a field trip🚗, especially when it is for something as cool as metal 3D-printing.

Last week, some of our team had the opportunity to visit Teknologisk Institut in Aarhus, where their 3D-printers work impressively in steel and titanium 🦾🤖

29/07/2026

Mission control, do you read me?

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of being hosted at Kampus Kąkolewo in Poznan. Here, we were able to run dual missions with GORM and FENRIS, which of course, shouldn't go undocumented.

So, enjoy 3 minutes worth of lunar mission, showing what GORM and FENRIS might be able to do in the great beyond🌙

04/07/2026

Our last day at Kampus Kąkolewo - time flies when you’re having fun.

After the events of yesterday however, the day had to begin with rover maintenance and repairs. In our experience, attached wires and working batteries are usually necessary for a functional rover – which they are yet again. You don’t build rovers without learning how to fix them on the go.

On that note, GORM went to work on the last of the planned tests before moving on to data collection.

Despite not having our manipulator attachment with us, we still needed to test how GORM would behave with the additional weight atop it. To simulate this we supplied GORM with car battery to simulate the weight that the manipulator would add and went ahead with maneuvers on the slope. A maneuver that surprisingly was not affected by the additional weight.

For FENRIS, this was also the time to finish up the last testing of the campaign. With LIDAR tests done and ROS bags recording it was time to return to the ever-elusive slope test. In which success was finally managed 🙌

Finally having three successes on the slope made for a great note to end on as GORM gathered to last bits of data that would help us improve when we got home.

One of the great things about having access to bigger and better sites that we usually do is that it allows us to realize which upgrades can ultimately improve our rovers.

Now the cars are packed and we are due home in the evening. Thank you so much to Poznan University for letting us use their facilities

03/07/2026

Our fourth day at Kampus Kąkolewo comes to a halt💫

Yet another day where our ArUco area gets a lot of attention, as both GORM and FENRIS had autonomy tests on the schedule.

Running first SLAM and then the mapless AI navigation system in day- and low light environments means that GORM has been getting hard at work gathering data. Both to train the mapless AI navigation and for us to use when we get back home. So far, it accounts for 400 GB of data in ROS bags, but the plan is to gather much more before we leave.

Likewise, FENRIS has been working on autonomous driving in the moon yard. Alongside practicing remote navigation, solely through the video feed provided by the rover. While the last test required a few fixes on the camera to receive a full 360 view from the rover, it was quickly ready for testing 📸

Though it faced some issues when it came to navigating in the less densely packed regolith, the rover managed to run its program in the denser terrain.

With the vast majority of the testing done, we couldn’t leave without testing FENRIS’ limits. Depending on your viewpoint, the stress-test could be considered greatly successful - we did at the very least learn where the limits laid.

All the while FENRIS was testing, GORM was headed for a GUI enhancement. While the cameras are functional in their own right, everything can always be improved upon. So, soon enough GORM’s front camera will be adaptive, with added driver lines for the wheels in order to assist in manual navigation.

One of the great things about having access to bigger and better sites that we usually do is that it allows us to realize which upgrades can ultimately improve our rovers.

02/07/2026

Well aren’t we spoiled for our third day at Kampus Kąkolewo.

With all our time spent at the facility, they made sure we didn’t completely miss out on the Poznanian culture. Thus the day was off to a good start with boxes of St. Martin’s croissants.

Even better was the success of the two large tests we had on our schedule today. In the first of which, FENRIS successfully managed to excavate and deposit more than 400 kg from one end of the arena to the other.

In order to fully prepare for our second large test - a dual test with both FENRIS and GORM - we spent the morning implementing (a new docker system) and testing GORM’s autonomy in a lit environment. Here we have been working on using both SLAM-based and a mapless AI navigation model.

At last it was time to test FENRIS and GORM’s ability to work together on a shared mission. Their aim was to create a passage in the side of a crater, in order for GORM to enter, locate, and rescue a small rover, which had been trapped inside. Teamwork makes the dream work, because with the help of FENRIS and its excavator tool, GORM managed to enter the crater after it had located the site where the excavation was needed.

For close to an hour, the test ran with observation from both inside the arena and outside - from our control station across GORM’s video feed.

01/07/2026

We’ve been spending the past few days acquainting ourselves with Politechnika Poznańska's Kampus Kakolewo - quite a ways from home.

But now we're back for day two of our Polish adventure.

This does mean that we’re slowly getting into the heavier end of the tests we have planned. For GORM, this means that the LIDAR and event cameras have both been mounted and are in working order - hopefully a good sign for the tests we are due to have with the rover in the following days.

In preparation for those, we have been using GORM to create a LIDAR map of the arena, maneuvering him from our control station. A map that allows us to navigate GORM in the moon yard, even when we cannot see. Alongside the manual navigation, we have also been running initial tests to focus on the autonomous abilities of the rover. So now the moon yard is filled with ArUco markers that have been mapped and let GORM navigate through the yard on his own.

FENRIS’ day two followed along some of the same lines of troubleshooting as they ran into yesterday. Not that it has prevented them from getting in a series of mobility tests and putting in a lot of work to convert their communication protocols in order to better handle data transfers without latency.

Though we ended the day on the hardest task – locating a place to eat that can seat 14 – we persevered and let ourselves enjoy that our abilities get to take us so far.

09/06/2026

It's not often that we get to test out GORM so close to home, especially when the surroundings almost look lunar themselves 🌑

Recently, we had the pleasure of taking GORM on a test drive at Aalborg Portland's Chalk Pit, where we got to simulate Multi-Rover Mapping in a moon analogue environment.

Though most of it went exceedingly well, it could only go well for so long. We may have been a little too ambitious - at the cost of a wheel - it luckily isn’t something that a 3D-printer cannot fix 😅

17/12/2025

Remember a little while back, when we tested GORM on an official military track? Well, we're back for round 2 🔔

Last friday, we headed back to what is quickly becoming one of our favorite testing locations. And with our new RTAB-map and Nav2 technology implemented, we were more excited than ever 🤩 This time, we luckily made it through without our little GORM breaking 💪😎

And as if that wasn't enough, we even had the luxury of being transported in (and using) Aalborg Universitet's drone van 🔥 It's pimped out with monitors for observation, and chairs for maximum comfort 🤓 But don't worry, we also brought our smaller, transportable setup to keep the connection stable ⚙

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