Increasing Mars 2020 Mission Efficiency via SAPP Operations Automation and AEGIS V&V

Operating a rover on another planet is a difficult task. While rovers are becoming increasingly autonomous, human input is still required and valuable in the space operations process. However, human time and rover time are precious and efforts must be made to make missions as efficient as possible. This thesis addresses the need for mission efficiency by implementing operational improvements to the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover’s Surface Attitude Positioning and Pointing (SAPP) subsystem and by supporting the verification and validation (V&V) of the Automated Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) software system for autonomous science gathering. These two projects help human operators to assess the rover’s health and status more effectively and help free up time spent with a human in the loop for science operations, respectively.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Trautman, Leilani

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Roy, Nicholas

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154015

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/154015