The focus of SSim on MSL was the robotic flight software, including rover mobility and navigation, robotic arm manipulation, and sample acquisition, processing, and delivery. It can execute behaviors in simulation a thousand times faster than they execute in real time on the flight compute element. SSim is used by rover drivers to develop and validate command sequences throughout the planning cycle. SSim has been used to plan all of the Curiosity robotic operations since landing and is expected to continue to be used for the remaining life of the rover.


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    Title :

    SSIM: NASA Mars rover robotics flight software simulation


    Contributors:
    Leger, Chris (author) / Verma, Vandi (author)

    Publication date :

    2019-03-02


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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