FIDO rover field trials as rehearsal for the NASA 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission

Author

Tunstel, Edward ; Huntsberger, Terry ; Aghazarian, Hrand ; Backes, Paul ; Baumgartner, Eric ; Cheng, Yang ; Garrett, Michael ; Kennedy, Brett ; Leger, Chris ; Magnone, Lee ; Norris, Jeffrey ; Powell, Mark ; Trebi-Ollennu, Ashitey ; Schenker, Paul

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

14

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

327

Abstract

This paper describes recent extended field trials performed using the FIDO (Field Integrated Design & Operations) rover, an advanced NASA technology development platform and research prototype for the next planned rover mission to Mars. Realistic physical simulation of the NASA 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission was achieved through collaborative efforts of roboticists, planetary scientists, and mission operations personnel. An overview of the objectives, approach, and results is reported.

Keywords

Mars; aerospace robotics; mobile robots; planetary rovers; FIDO rover; Mars Exploration Rovers; Mars exploration; NASA; autonomous mobile robot; planetary rover; rover mission to Mars; space mission simulation; space robotics; Instruments; Mars; Mobile robots; NASA; Orbital robotics; Personnel; Prototypes; Space missions; Space technology; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Congress, 2002 Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World

Print_ISBN

1-889335-18-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAC.2002.1049460

Filename

1049460