The selection and infusion of autonomy for Mars rovers

How do you select autonomy, insure that it meets your needs, and arrives for launch in a reliable form? How do you ensure autonomy providers around the country meet these goals compliant with institutional practices and policies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for building space qualified reliable systems? Answers to these questions have resulted in a process we call autonomy infusion. This paper describes the process MSL is using to infuse autonomy into a rover, and describes attributes, and evaluation criteria and their use pertinent to autonomy technologies for Mars rovers in general.