NASA Mars rover: a testbed for evaluating applications of covariance intersection
Jeffrey K. Uhlmann, Simon Julier, Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Marco O. Lanzagorta, Haw-Jye S. Shyu · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1999
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has spearheaded the development and application of Covariance Intersection (CI) for a variety of decentralized data fusion problems. Such problems include distributed control, onboard sensor fusion, and dynamic map building and localization. In this paper we describe NRL's development of a CI-based navigation system for the NASA Mars rover that stresses almost all aspects of decentralized data fusion. We also describe how this project relates to NRL's augmented reality, advanced visualization, and REBOT projects.