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How NASA Built a Self-Driving Car for Its Next Mars Mission – WIRED
It’s hard enough to get an autonomous vehicle to work on Earth. It’s even harder on another planet.
Matthies has helped build the visual navigation systems for every rover thats ever gone to Mars. Aside from Sojourner, NASAs first rover on the Red Planet, all of its mobile explorers have used a combination of stereo vision and visual odometry to get around. But what makes Perseverance special is that it has dedicated hardware and a suite of fancy new algorithms for machine vision.
Perseverances new digital glasses will allow it to autonomously navigate its surroundings several times faster th…
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