AUPE development began in 2009 when a camera system to provide data representative of the ExoMars PanCam instrument was required for field testing.

AUPE Fieldwork

AUPE has visited many interesting sites over the years and taken part in fieldwork all over the world:

ExoFiT, Chile, February 2019
- https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/02/ExoFiT_rover_in_Chile2
ExoFiT, Spain, October 2018
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/desert-test-drive-for-mars-rover-controlled-from-1000-miles-away
Utah, November 2017
Pembrokeshire, Wales, September 2017
Námafjall, Iceland, August 2017
- https://www.aber.ac.uk/
Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire, July 2017
MURFI, Utah, November 2016
- https://murfiblog.wordpress.com
MINAR 2, Boulby Mine, Whitby, May 2014
- https://clairecousins.wordpress.com
SAFER, Atacama Desert, Chile, October 2013
- https://safertrial.wordpress.com
- http://www.bridgetrover.net
Námafjall, Iceland, July 2013
- https://clairecousins.wordpress.com
- http://www.petergrindrod.net/
- YouTube: ExoMars AUPE testing in Iceland 2013, Peter Grindrod (01/07/13)
PRoViScout, Minas de San José, Tenerife, September 2012
- http://www.proviscout.eu
PRoVisG, El Teide National Park, Tenerife, September 2011
- http://provisg.eu
- YouTube: PRoVisG Field Trials, LJ W (23/10/11)
- YouTube: Robot Rover Bridget, Federico Jose Pérez Martín (16/09/11)
- YouTube: Un robot espacial se pasea por el Parque Nacional del Teide, Las Noticias de Canarias Acnpress (16/09/11)
PRoVisG, Clarach Bay, Wales, July 2010
- YouTube: PRoViSG Field Test Clarach Bay, FERMVAiktJR (22/11/10)
- Project Image Gallery

You can follow AUPE’s travels on Twitter: @AUPE_ExoMars