MoonWalker Project: Digital Twins

Project maintained by ElijahSagaranCSUN Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Purpose of MoonWalker

This project focuses on digital twin interoperability for lunar rover simulations. As both public and private organizations become more active in lunar space exploration, testing rover behavior grows expensive, difficult, and potentially dangerous. Digital twins provide a safer and more cost-effective way to simulate how different rovers operate in space and under various conditions. The main challenge, however, is the non-uniformity of simulation platforms between organizations, i.e., some utilizes Omniverse, while others Unity. This discrepancy creates an environment where collaboration might be difficult. This project aims to address that problem by enabling interoperability between digital twins across different simulation platforms. Furthermore, the project specifically improves the transfer of physics parameters between platforms, allowing realistic rover collisions and interactions, which was a limiting factor prior.