Mars Planetary Rover Control Protocol

Robotics technology has revolutionized many fields. Robots are of great help in space, industries and in war. In deep space, they have wide applications in exploration field. Mars Planetary Rovers are unmanned vehicles that are designed for the exploration at Martian surface. Mars Planetary Rovers are subjected to traverse over surface of mars for exploration purpose. Mars Planetary Rover works autonomously with assistance from base stations at earth that control or command the rover remotely. This paper proposes a protocol which works at transport layer for communication between the mars rover and its earth's station. The protocol proposed can be mapped back to TCP/IP network suit.