Because of light-time delays, a planetary rover located on Mars or beyond will probably need to be able to navigate autonomously, in order to do significant exploration. Recent work at JPL has explored several different autonomous navigation strategies. This work includes highly deliberative methods that require large amounts of computation and internal storage but yield very planful behavior to more reactive systems that require less resources but whose behavior is more difficult to model. This paper briefly presents these methods, the results from experiments both in simulation and in the field, and some conclusions on the value of different approaches, and their possible impact on the structure of the robot and the mission architecture.
Autonomous rough terrain navigation - Lessons learned
AIAA Computing in Aerospace Conference ; 1991 ; Baltimore, MD, United States
1991-01-01
Conference paper
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English
Autonomous rough terrain navigation - Lessons learned
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