This review paper aims to gather currently available information on the Mars rover Perseverance and Curiosity, and attempt to analyze them in terms of structure and system. The Mars Rover Perseverance and Curiosity are the latest Mars exploration rover from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Mars rovers have the ability to explore, collect and analyze samples themselves, while being remotely controlled from Earth. Three components of the rover are analyzed, the body, wheel, and arm. The purpose, design principle, structure, mechanics, and thermal analysis of each part is reviewed based on available research. A review and discussion of possible improvements to the rover are also reviewed. From the analysis, the rovers’ body can provide structural support, while providing sufficient thermal requirements for its systems. The rover's wheel is rigid, providing resilience and structural support, while utilizing the Rocker-Bogie mechanism. Lastly, the arm and turret systems have the capability to support its equipment load by utilizing several systems such as the Caging mechanism and flex cable systems, while also accounting for thermal conditions.
Autonomous terrain classification is an important problem in planetary navigation, whether the goal is to identify scientific sites of interest or to traverse treacherous areas safely. Past Martian rovers have relied on human operators to manually identify a navigable path from transmitted imagery. Our goals on Mars in the next few decades will eventually require rovers that can autonomously move farther, faster, and through more dangerous landscapes--demonstrating a need for improved terrain classification for traversability. Autonomous navigation through extreme environments will enable the search for water on the Moon and Mars as well as preparations for human habitats. Advancements in machine learning techniques have demonstrated potential to improve terrain classification capabilities for ground vehicles on Earth. However, classification results for space applications are limited by the availability of training data suitable for supervised learning methods. This paper contributes an open source automatic data processing pipeline that uses camera geometry to co-locate Curiosity and Perseverance Mastcam image products with Mars overhead maps via ray projection over a terrain model. In future work, this automated data processing pipeline will be leveraged for development of machine learning methods for terrain classification.
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