Future Mars rovers, such as the planned 2009 MSL rover, require sufficient autonomy to robustly approach rock targets and place an instrument in contact with them. It took the 1997 Sojourner Mars rover between 3 and 5 communications cycles to accomplish this. This paper describes the technologies being developed and integrated onto the NASA Ames K9 prototype Mars rover to both accomplish this in one cycle, and to extend the complexity and duration of operations that a Mars rover can accomplish without intervention from mission control.
Instrument Deployment for Mars Rovers
IEEE 2003 International Conference on Robotics and Automation ; 2003 ; Taiwan, Province of China
2002-09-17
Preprint
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Englisch
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