One of the key elements of NASA's future human exploration plans is the development of humantended deep space habitats

These may serve as habitats during transfer from earth to a destination (the moon mars etc) or serve as periodicallyinhabited orbital bases. For all of these deepspace habitats especially ones left in orbit around a destination planet or moon astronaut time at the habitat will be both infrequent and very valuable. As such IT would be extremely desirable to develop ways to enable robots to outfit the habitat prior to human occupation and to allow robots to perform maintenance and logistics tasks both when humans are present and when they are not. These robotic interaction aids ideally can serve three purposes: 1) helping robots determine their relative pose and position with respect to the target and their relative location/pose inside or outside the habitat 2) identifying what the objects are especially if the objects are mobile like softgoods bags and 3) simplifying physical interactions with the object including anchoring to and manipulating the object. To enable these types of robotic interactions altius proposes the development of a lightweight lowcost passive "dogtag" robotic interface that can be attached to various habitat structures and objects. The dogtag interface includes: 1) a thin (