Achieving consistently high levels of productivity has been a challenge for Mars surface missions. While the rovers have made major discoveries and dramatically increased our understanding of Mars, they require a great deal of interaction from the operations teams, and achieving mission objectives can take longer than anticipated when productivity is paced by the ground teams' ability to react. We have conducted a project to explore technologies and techniques for creating self‐reliant rovers (SRR): rovers that are able to maintain high levels of productivity with reduced reliance on ground interactions. This paper describes the design of SRR and a prototype implementation that we deployed on a research rover. We evaluated the system by conducting a simulated campaign in which members of the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover) science team used our rover to explore a geographical region. The evaluation demonstrated the system's ability to maintain high levels of productivity with limited communication with operators.

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自力更生的漫游车可提高任务生产率

对于火星水面飞行任务而言，始终如一的高生产率一直是一项挑战。流浪者取得了重大发现并大大增加了我们对火星的了解，但它们需要作战团队进行大量互动，而要达到目标，所需的时间可能会比地面团队的反应能力来提高生产率的预期要长。我们已经进行了一个项目，以探索用于创建自立式漫游者（SRR）的技术：漫游者能够保持较高的生产率，并且减少了对地面交互的依赖。本文介绍了SRR的设计以及我们部署在研究漫游车上的原型实现。我们通过进行一次模拟战役对系统进行了评估，在该战役中，火星科学实验室（好奇号漫游者）科学团队的成员使用漫游者来探索地理区域。评估表明，该系统具有在与操作员进行有限沟通的情况下保持较高生产率的能力。