Title :
Mars Exploration Rover Operations with the Science Activity Planner
Author :
Norris, Jeffrey S. ; Powell, Mark W. ; Vona, Marsette A. ; Backes, Paul G. ; Wick, Justin V.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, USA, maestro@list.jpl.nasa.gov
Abstract :
The Science Activity Planner (SAP) is the primary science operations tool for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and NASA’s Software of the Year for 2004. SAP utilizes a variety of visualization and planning capabilities to enable the mission operations team to direct the activities of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. This paper outlines some of the challenging requirements that drove the design of SAP and discusses lessons learned from the development and use of SAP in mission operations.
Keywords :
planning; simulation; space; teleoperation; visualization; Downlink; Earth; Laboratories; Mars; Planets; Propulsion; Robots; Space technology; Space vehicles; Visualization; planning; simulation; space; teleoperation; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8914-X
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570832
