CADRE火星车在火星场进行试驾

Two full-scale development model rovers, part of NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration, drive in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in this image from August 2023. The project is designed to show that a group of robotic spacecraft can work together as a team to accomplish tasks and record data autonomously – without explicit commands from mission controllers on Earth.

A series of Mars Yard tests with the development models confirmed CADRE hardware and software can work together to accomplish key goals for the project. The rovers drove together in formation and adjusted their plans as a group when faced with unexpected obstacles.

CADRE is slated to arrive at the Reiner Gamma region of the Moon through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The network of robots will spend the daylight hours of a single lunar day – about 14 Earth days – conducting experiments that will test their capabilities.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

这张摄于2023年8月的图片展示了两辆全尺寸发展模型漫游车在NASA加州南部喷气推进实验室的火星场中行驶，它们是NASA的合作自主分布式机器人探索（CADRE）技术演示的一部分。该项目旨在展示一组机器人航天器如何能够作为一个团队共同完成任务并自主记录数据——无需地球上的任务控制人员的明确指令。

一系列在火星场与开发模型进行的测试确认了CADRE的硬件和软件能够协同工作，完成项目的关键目标。这些漫游车以编队形式一起行驶，并在面对意外障碍时作为一个群体调整他们的计划。

CADRE计划通过NASA的商业月球有效载荷服务（CLPS）计划，到达月球的雷纳伽玛区域。这一机器人网络将利用一个月球日的白昼时间进行实验，——约14个地球日——进行实验，测试它们的能力。

影像来源: NASA/JPL-Caltech