Mars Rover Local Navigation And Hazard Avoidance

B. H. Wilcox; D. B. Gennery; A. H. Mishkin

doi:10.1117/12.949085

10 March 1989 Mars Rover Local Navigation And Hazard Avoidance

B. H. Wilcox, D. B. Gennery, A. H. Mishkin

Proceedings Volume 1007, Mobile Robots III; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949085
Event: 1988 Cambridge Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1988, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

A Mars rover sample return mission has been proposed for the late 1990's. Due to the long speed-of-light delays between Earth and Mars, some autonomy on the rover is highly desirable. JPL has been conducting research in two possible modes of rover operation, Computer-Aided Remote Driving and Semiautonomous Navigation. A recently-completed research program used a half-scale testbed vehicle to explore several of the concepts in semiautonomous navigation. A new, full-scale vehicle with all computational and power resources on-board will be used in the coming year to demonstrate relatively fast semiautonomous navigation. The computational and power requirements for Mars rover local navigation and hazard avoidance are discussed.

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B. H. Wilcox, D. B. Gennery, and A. H. Mishkin "Mars Rover Local Navigation And Hazard Avoidance", Proc. SPIE 1007, Mobile Robots III, (10 March 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949085

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