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Perseverance Rover Collision Model for a range of Autonomous Behaviors
Douglas Klein, Joseph Carsten, Philip Bailey, Justin Huang, Vandi Verma
Perseverance (Mars 2020)named in title, abstract
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The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021. It is a science mission to collect and cache sample cores for possible return to Earth in the future. Robot collision modeling is traditionally used in robotics for hardware safety for manipulation and sampling. The Mars 2020 Rover Collision Model (RCM) optimizes and extends collision checking in innovative ways to provide a range of onboard autonomous capability on a computationally constrained system. It provides an example of the benefit of systems and operations cognizant software design and development of autonomous systems.