Open Space Robotics: Software and Hardware Solutions

The space robotics community has historically been constrained by proprietary, siloed, and hard-to-reproduce software and hardware stacks, which slows down research progress and makes it difficult for new groups to enter the field. This workshop brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners working on open-source and openly documented solutions for orbital and planetary robotics, to foster a more collaborative, reproducible, and accessible ecosystem.

Our objective is twofold: first, to showcase concrete tools — simulation frameworks, autonomy stacks, SITL/HITL pipelines, and software- and hardware-based redundant failsafe schemes — that are publicly released and usable by the broader community; second, to identify gaps and opportunities for collaboration across groups currently developing similar tools in isolation. High on the priority list is forming a working group for continued open-source support in space robotics.