Upcoming missions to the surface of Mars will use mobile robots to traverse long distances from the landing site. To prepare for these missions, the prototype rover, Rocky 7, has been tested in desert field trials conducted with a team of planetary scientists. While several new capabilities have been demonstrated, foremost among these was sun-sensor based traversal of natural terrain totaling a distance of one kilometer. This paper describes navigation results obtained in the field tests, where cross-track error was only 6% of distance traveled. Comparison with previous results of other planetary rover systems shows this to be a significant improvement.


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    Title :

    Mars Rover Navigation Results Using Sun Sensor Heading Determination


    Contributors:
    R. Volpe (author)

    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English