Spatial Coverage Planning for Exploration Robots
TBMG-2440
11/01/2007
- Content
A report discusses an algorithm for an onboard planning and execution technology to support the exploration and characterization of geological features by autonomous rovers. A rover that is capable of deciding which observations are more important relieves the engineering team from much of the burden of attempting to make accurate predictions of what the available rover resources will be in the future. Instead, the science and engineering teams can uplink a set of observation requests that may potentially oversubscribe resources and let the rover use observation priorities and its current assessment of available resources to make decisions about which observations to perform and when to perform them.
- Citation
- "Spatial Coverage Planning for Exploration Robots," Mobility Engineering, November 1, 2007.