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Astrobee Robot Software - Flight Software repository

About

Astrobee is a free-flying robot designed to operate as a payload inside the International Space Station (ISS). The Astrobee Robot Software consists of embedded (on-board) software, supporting tools and a simulator. The Astrobee Robot Software operates on Astrobee's three internal single board computers and uses the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) framework as message-passing middleware. The Astrobee Robot Software performs vision-based localization, provides autonomous navigation, docking and perching, manages various sensors and actuators, and supports user interaction via screen-based displays, light signaling, and sound. The Astrobee Robot Software enables Astrobee to be operated in multiple modes: plan-based task execution (command sequencing), teleoperation, or autonomously through execution of hosted code uploaded by project partners (guest science). The software simulator enables Astrobee Robot Software to be evaluated without the need for robot hardware.

This repository provides flight software and a simulator, both primarily written in C++. The repository also provides several other utilities, including a tool for creating maps for localization. A separate repository, astrobee_android, contains the Java API, which uses the ROS messaging system to communicate with flight software.

The Astrobee Robot Software is in a beta stage. This means that some features are incomplete, and extensive changes can be expected. Please consult RELEASE for the current list of features and limitations.

Usage instructions

If you don't have access to NASA's internal network, please see the usage instructions.

If you do, please see the NASA usage instructions.

Contributors

The Astrobee Robot Software is open source, and we welcome contributions from the public. However, for us to merge any pull requests, we must request that contributors sign and submit a Contributor License Agreement due to NASA legal requirements. Thank you for your understanding.

Documentation

To generate the Astrobee documentation, run the following command after checking out the code (the latest version of doxygen should be installed for correct markdown support) :

doxygen doc/astrobee.doxyfile

The documentation will be generated in the doc/html folder. Open the doc/documentation.html to get to the main page of the documentation.

For familiarization with the Astrobee project, it is recommended to read some background papers:

Astrobee Software Concepts

Lorenzo Fluckiger, Kathryn Browne, Brian Coltin, Jesse Fusco, Theodore Morse, and Andrew Symington. “Astrobee Robot Software: Enabling Mobile Autonomy on the ISS”, In Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), 2018.

Localization method

Brian Coltin et al. “Localization from visual landmarks on a free-flying robot”. In: Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. IEEE. 2016, pp. 4377–4382.

Astrobee platform

Maria Bualat et al. "Astrobee: A New Tool for ISS Operations." 2018 SpaceOps Conference. 2018.

Guest Science

If you are interested in guest science, please do one of the following for more information.

If you are a non-NASA user, please checkout the astrobee_android nasa github project (if you followed the usage instructions, you should have checked this out already). Once that is checked out, please see astrobee_android/README.md located in the astrobee_android/ folder.

If you are a NASA user, please make sure the android submodule was checked out and then visit submodules/android/guest_science_readme.md.

License

Copyright (c) 2017, United States Government, as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All rights reserved.

The Astrobee platform is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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