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Multi-resolution Traversability Assessment for Collaborative Surface Navigation, Year 2

Completed TRL 5 (started at 2, targeting 5)

Description

Expand the risk-aware stochastic traversability assessment to orbiter-rover collaboration scenarios. Use cases include Mars/Lunar exploration, terrestrial applications, and outer-world applications such as icy worlds. This work provides an autonomous solution to fuse orbital and surface data, which currently be only done by human on the ground.

Benefits

Enable km-scale multi-sol continuous driving without ground intervention by utilizing data from other agents (satellites, helicopters, past mission rovers); Enhance vehicle safety by compensating traversability information in the sensor’s blind spots; Improve drive efficiency by incorporating macro-level traversability information to avoid local minima

Details

Technology areaRobotic Systems > Mobility
ProgramCenter Innovation Fund: JPL CIF (JPL CIF)
Lead organizationJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Start date2021-10-01
End date2022-09-30

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