To ensure that robots are used effectively for exploration missions, it is important to assess their performance during operations. We are investigating the definition and computation of performance metrics for assessing remote robotic operations in real-time. Our approach is to monitor data streams from robots, compute performance metrics, and provide Web-based displays of these metrics for assessing robot performance during operations. We evaluated our approach for measuring robot performance with the K10 rovers from NASA Ames Research Center during a field test at Moses Lake Sand Dunes (WA) in June 2008. In this paper we present the results of evaluating our software for robot performance and discuss our conclusions from this evaluation for future robot operations.
Real-Time Assessment of Robot Performance during Remote Exploration Operations
2009
13 pages
Report
No indication
English
Computers, Control & Information Theory , Robotics/Robots , Real time , Remote systems , Robotics , Robots , Research facilities , Display systems , Internet , Software tools , Metrics , Computations , Symposia , Data processing , Field tests , Exploration , Sbir(Small business innovation research) , Sbir reports , Sbir topic x7.02 phase 1