OVERSEER Visual Planning, Monitoring, Control and Simulation Environment for Robotic Exploration Missions
Mark Woods, Philip Rendell · SpaceOps 2010 Conference · 2010
The use of advanced robotic platforms for solar system exploration continues to grow and become a mainstream exploration activity. Over time robot deployments will stretch beyond single agent activities and will also include human robot and robot-robot interaction. Given the complexity of the robot-terrain/environment interactions and constrained communication options (latencies, non real-time and low-bandwidth such missions require more sophisticated tool support for planning and monitoring including 3D visualization. These tools will also need to deal with different phases of deployment from remote through to long-term exploration with human teams in-situ. This paper describes a software framework called OVERSEER for multiple robot use and management including; integrated smart device access which can be used for automated, in-field request support.