{"id":569015,"date":"2019-01-17T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0dfe26396cb205dfb2a3acdb2245233c"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:30:00","slug":"self-driving-test-of-exomars-rover-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=569015","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving test of ExoMars rover software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2019\/01\/self-driving_test_of_exomars_rover_software\/19189731-1-eng-GB\/Self-driving_test_of_ExoMars_rover_software_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA half-scale version of the ExoMars rover, called ExoMars Testing Rover (ExoTeR), manoeuvred itself carefully through the red rocks and sand of 9&#215;9 m Planetary Utilisation Testbed, part of ESA\u2019s Planetary Robotics Laboratory in its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was a test of autonomous navigation software destined for ESA\u2019s ExoMars 2020 mission to the red planet. The two-day rover test was conducted by ESA robotic engineers, joined by a team from French space agency CNES in Toulouse. They have more than two decades of experience in autonomous navigation for planetary rovers, culminating in developing the \u2018AutoNav\u2019 suite of software that was doing the driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoTeR rover, complete with updated software, is now set to return to Altec in Italy \u2013 home of ExoMars 2020\u2019s rover control team \u2013 allowing them to gain experience with the added functionality of autonomous navigation ahead of ExoMars\u2019s flight software being completed. ExoMars\u2019s final flight software will actually carry two sets of autonomous navigation software, with another developed by Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2019\/01\/self-driving_test_of_exomars_rover_software\/19189731-1-eng-GB\/Self-driving_test_of_ExoMars_rover_software_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA half-scale version of the ExoMars rover, called ExoMars Testing Rover (ExoTeR), manoeuvred itself carefully through the red rocks and sand of 9&#215;9 m Planetary Utilisation Testbed, part of ESA&rsquo;s Planetary Robotics Laboratory in its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was a test of autonomous navigation software destined for ESA&rsquo;s ExoMars 2020 mission to the red planet. The two-day rover test was conducted by ESA robotic engineers, joined by a team from French space agency CNES in Toulouse. They have more than two decades of experience in autonomous navigation for planetary rovers, culminating in developing the &lsquo;AutoNav&rsquo; suite of software that was doing the driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ExoTeR rover, complete with updated software, is now set to return to Altec in Italy &ndash; home of ExoMars 2020&rsquo;s rover control team &ndash; allowing them to gain experience with the added functionality of autonomous navigation ahead of ExoMars&rsquo;s flight software being completed. ExoMars&rsquo;s final flight software will actually carry two sets of autonomous navigation software, with another developed by Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569016,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569015\/revisions\/569016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}