NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project is developing robots programmed to work as an autonomous team to explore the lunar surface, collect data, and map different areas of the Moon in 3D. With each mini-rover free to move independently, together they can perform distributed measurements that would be nearly impossible for a single rover to achieve. The core autonomy technology developed under CADRE could also be used on other planetary bodies such as Mars and beyond.
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jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mini-rovers designed to autonomously work together recently underwent tests at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, navigating obstacles and surfaces that they could encounter on the Moon.