ESA Open Invitation to Tender AO10604
Open Date: 18/02/2021
Closing Date: 01/04/2021 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 20.1QQ.01
Prog. Ref.: Technology Developme
Budget Ref.: E/0901-01 – Technology Developme
Special Prov.: BE+DK+FR+DE+IT+NL+ES+SE+CH+GB+IE+AT+NO+FI+PT+GR+LU+CZ+RO+PL+EE+HU
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 100-200 KEURO
Products: Ground Segment / Development and Construction of Space Segment / Assembly Integration and Test / Other
Technology Domains: Quality, Dependability and Safety / Product and Quality Assurance / Quality Assurance Processes for Flight and Ground Systems
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of Tech, Eng. & Quality
Department: Product Assurance and Safety Department
Division: Quality, Dependability and PA Support Di
Contract Officer: Angelopoulous, Vasileios
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 18/02/2021
Update Reason: Tender issue

For New Space projects, where a medium to large production volume of nanosats and smallsats is foreseen, it is of paramount importance to cut the costs for integration and visual inspection activities while guaranteeing maximum quality and traceability of the work performed, in addition to the possibility of adapting the automatic procedures for an agile implementation of lessons learned..This TRL 5 project aims to use Artificial Intelligence and an Industry 4.0 approach to develop automatic systems for integration and visual inspection of space hardware. The human operator will be guided by the computer in performing his/her task after the AI has been trained adequately based on a dataset of inputs related to the specific projects. A demo with a breadboard based on COTS hardware will be released at the end of the activity in ESA.