MLNav: Learning to Safely Navigate on Martian Terrains

no code implementations • 9 Mar 2022 • Shreyansh Daftry, Neil Abcouwer, Tyler del Sesto, Siddarth Venkatraman, Jialin Song, Lucas Igel, Amos Byon, Ugo Rosolia, Yisong Yue, Masahiro Ono

We present MLNav, a learning-enhanced path planning framework for safety-critical and resource-limited systems operating in complex environments, such as rovers navigating on Mars.

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Machine Learning Based Path Planning for Improved Rover Navigation (Pre-Print Version)

no code implementations • 11 Nov 2020 • Neil Abcouwer, Shreyansh Daftry, Siddarth Venkatraman, Tyler del Sesto, Olivier Toupet, Ravi Lanka, Jialin Song, Yisong Yue, Masahiro Ono

Enhanced AutoNav (ENav), the baseline surface navigation software for NASA's Perseverance rover, sorts a list of candidate paths for the rover to traverse, then uses the Approximate Clearance Evaluation (ACE) algorithm to evaluate whether the most highly ranked paths are safe.

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