GITAI Lunar Rover R1.5 Context

Market context

GITAI's lunar rover manipulator work combines rover mobility and robotic manipulation for lunar-surface construction and infrastructure tasks.

• Target environment: Simulated lunar terrain, space robotics testbeds and future lunar-surface operations.
• Workflow context: Lunar exploration, infrastructure construction, inspection, maintenance and robotic manipulation.
• Customer context: Space agencies, commercial space companies and lunar infrastructure programs.
• Deployment model: Prototype, demonstration and space-program partnership model.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype and demonstration-stage product line with public lunar-robotics demonstrations and program material.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on flight qualification, mission integration, launch schedules, environmental durability and space-program funding.
• Market position: Space robotics platform for off-world manipulation and rover-based work.
• Adjacent products: R1 Rover, IN1 Inchworm Robot Arm, Lunar Cruiser robotics

Audience

Space agencies

Workflow

Lunar exploration, infrastructure construction, inspection, maintenance and robotic manipulation.

Deployment environment

Simulated lunar terrain, space robotics testbeds and future lunar-surface operations.

Specifications

• Weight: 280 kg
• Top Speed Mps: 0.24 m/s
• Power Consumption W: 115–1500 W
• Input Voltage: 36–48 V DC
• Motor: Brushless DC motor
• Communication: EtherCAT and Ethernet internal communication
• Sensors Summary: VN-100 IMU and absolute encoder for rocker-link angle
• Wheel Configuration: 4 wheel units; one drive and one steering axis each
• Wheel Dimensions M: 0.6 x 0.25
• Onboard Compute: NVIDIA Jetson Xavier
• Actuation Control: distributed controller for each arm joint and wheel unit
• Dust Mitigation: actuation units include dust mitigation