Biologically Inspired Autonomous Rover Control

  • Authors:

  • Terry Huntsberger

  • Affiliations:

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 82-105, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. Terry.Huntsberger@jpl.nasa.gov

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Robotic missions beyond 2013 will likely be precursors to a manned habitat deployment on Mars. Such missions require robust control systems for long duration activities. Current single rover missions will evolve into deployment of multiple, heterogeneous cooperating robotic colonies. This paper describes the map-making memory and action selection mechanism of BISMARC (\underline{\rm B}iologically \underline{\rm I}nspired \underline{\rm S}ystem for \underline{\rm M}ap-based \underline{\rm A}utonomous \underline{\rm R}over \underline{\rm C}ontrol) that is currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA (Huntsberger and Rose, iNeutral Networks, 11(7/8):1497–1510). BISMARC is an integrated control system for long duration missions involving robots performing cooperative tasks.