High Speed Lunar Navigation for Crewed and Remotely Piloted Vehicles
Lasse Heje Pedersen, Malcolm Allan, Vinh To, Hans Utz, W. Wojcikiewicz, Christophe Chautems · International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence · 2010
Increased navigation speed is desirable for lunar rovers, whether autonomous, crewed or remotely operated, but is hampered by the low gravity, high contrast lighting and rough terrain. We describe lidar based navigation system deployed on NASA's K10 autonomous rover and to increase the terrain hazard situational awareness of the Lunar Electric Rover crew.