Timeline for How much can the Mars rover Curiosity do autonomously, after four years of operation?
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| Nov 15, 2018 at 10:18 | history | edited | BlueCoder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | kert | Thanks for the clarifications, Mark. Great to hear from the people involved ! | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 4:47 | comment | added | Mark Adler | @kert No, the 2005 upload was just a bug fix and hooking in visual odometry, per the paper. The AutoNav software was there and validated on the rovers on Earth in 2003. I directed the first use of Autonav on Mars in 2004 on Spirit on Sol 36. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 3:20 | comment | added | uhoh | I'm looking for an answer to "How much can the Mars rover Curiosity do autonomously" where the operative word is "do", rather than a list of names of software. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:40 | comment | added | uhoh | Great! Can you help me understand more about driving - does Curiosity ever choose, or at least modify a recommended path from point A to point B on its own? For example during a drive, close inspection of an obstacle may reveal a problem - does Curiosity ever decide to go around something and just do it on it's own? Also can the ground issue a command "drill here, collect a sample of power, and analyze it using method X" and Curiosity executes this autonomously? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:08 | comment | added | kert | Amended the post. I remember Curiosity switched this on in 2013, according to this paper Spirit got the software in 2005 | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:06 | history | edited | kert | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2016 at 1:45 | comment | added | Mark Adler | AutoNav has been in use since 2003, on the Mars Exploration Rovers. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 1:34 | history | answered | kert | CC BY-SA 3.0 |