Title :
Imaging services flight software on the Mars Exploration Rovers
Author :
Litwin, Todd E. ; Maki, Justin N.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
The imaging services module of the Mars Exploration Rovers´ on-board flight software is responsible for providing image data to the rest of the system. It acquires images from a suite of cameras, performs on-board image processing, labels the results with metadata, and delivers the final products to a diverse set of consumers, both on board and on the ground. The demands for flexibility and speed led to a design involving multiple tasks and a large set of parameters controlling the acquisition of the images, the on-board processing, and the method of product delivery.
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aerospace robotics; cameras; image processing; mobile robots; planetary rovers; Mars exploration rovers; cameras; image acquisition; image data; imaging service module; metadata; on-board flight software; on-board image processing; product delivery; robotics; Cameras; Hardware; Image processing; Laboratories; Mars; Motion detection; Orbital robotics; Planets; Propulsion; Robot vision systems; Camera Models; Cameras; Image Processing; Mars Rovers; Robotics; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9298-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571260