Personverance Rover made the first Autonav drive
Since the skin of perseverance landed on Mars, it has been expelled throughout the surface of the planet by a driver who works on earth. Drivers, as illustrated in the picture below, wear special 3D glasses to allow them to see Rover’s obstacles needed to avoid better as rover cruises on the surface of the red planet. However, NASA designed perseverance to become more autonomous than past Rovers.
The Perheverance Rover has an integrated automatic navigation system called Autonav. This system creates a 3D map of the field in front, identifies the hazard and plans routes around any obstacles without requiring data from the controller on earth. Senior engineers, Rover Planner, and drivers for NASA Vandi Verma (seen in the picture below) say that Rover has the ability called “thinking while driving,” which means thinking about autonomous drives while the wheel rotates. While the wheel rotates.
Other abilities and improvements can allow perseverance to reach a top speed of 393 feet per hour. Perseverance is not the first NASA Rover equipped with Autonav. Curiosity uses a longer version of the feature and can only reach speeds of about 66 feet per hour. A higher speed represents an increase in four or five times for perseverance. Higher speed allows explorers to travel further, helping increase the rate of science operations.
Enhanced navigation ability also allows perseverance to pass more complex fields than traveling around, which NASA cannot have done before. Going to a more complex field will be able to open up explorers to make more discoveries in less time. However, NASA is clear that perseverance cannot operate with Autonav itself and will always need a Rover team on earth.
Delaying radio signals between Earth and Mars prevents human operators from controlling Rover in real-time. Instead, the team uses special glasses sometimes to learn satellite images from the surface of Mars around Rover. The investigation helped plot the course, which was then sent to Rover to be executed.