NASA: Rover Planning Simulation

2006

The HCI Group at the NASA Ames Research Center, tasked us to design an interface to facilitate rover mission planning. This capstone thesis project involve the ability of people on Earth to effectively control rovers on Mars. We designed a functional simulation to test the effectiveness of our solution, which highlights the problems that NASA Engineers and Scientists actually experience:

• Limited Downlink Capability
• Long Term Mission Planning
• Rover Control
• Correction for Navigation Error
• Multi Person Rover Control & planning
• Emulation of Scientific Discover