Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
Endeavour Drive - Drivability analysis |
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Dear All,
Let me give you my feeling. I understand that for the coming month or so, we have to concentrate to find out the general best possible road as defined by Paolo. This is a very challenging topic and I agree that a kind of automation has to be found out. The possibilities are too wide to try to spread the work between UMSFers eyes. Our group contribution here will be (mainly) limited to the one that get, time, talent and knowledge. So, I’d like to encourage the “others” like me that can help with eyes, hands, brute force, etc to get prepared for the next step: we all will contribute but only when the general route will have been chosen. The idea is to have a group of people dedicated to “explore” the intended path, say a 100 meters wide path, another group to explore the left side of the path (another 100 meters) while the third will explore 100 meters on the right of the path When I write explore, I mean “try to get the most information of”. The main idea will be to be about one or two weeks ahead of Oppy, not more, because, at anytime we could need a path change i.e. the information from people looking right or left which right or left will be modified if the main path changes. So, I guess that a 300 meters wide path 1-2 weeks in advance is more than enough. People could switch groups regarding availability, interest etc, could participate in 1,2 or the 3 groups but the minimum will be to have enough people on the main path at anytime. On top of this we’ll also need a management of the whole picture. I mean, as we’ll have data from the ground (navcam and pancam) that will show what the reality is like, that will sometimes “see” 1 or 2 weeks ahead we’ll have to integrate those data in the groups. Let me tell you that if we can commit to such a “work”, if we can provide the Rover Drivers with consistent and reliable data, we will have a big contribution to Mars Exploration and this is very exciting to say the less. I hope you’ll like the idea. -------------------- |
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Wow, that's really "back seat driving" to an extreme!
![]() ... I have a mental image of a big bus full with people (about 40 or 50) screaming to the driver: "left on the next cross; no, no, straight ahead; no, stop! ..." ![]() |
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