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The article “NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’” (2021) highlights the capability of the Perseverance rover's navigation system which is used to traverse on the Martian surface to look for signs of ancient life along with locating and transporting sample of rock back to Earth for analysis. The navigation system consists of the Auto navigation system, where it can build 3D mapping of the terrain, identifying the hazards and planning a route around obstacles automatically, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which provides 3-axis information on its position like the vertical, horizontal, and side-to-side (yaw) movements, Navcam, two colour stereo Navigation Cameras which typically take wide angle photographs that are used to plan the next moves of the vehicle or object tracking, Hazard Camera, which is mounted on the rover body four on the front and two on the rear, was able to capture 3D views of the surrounding which is used for detecting hazards of the fron...

The article “NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’” (2021) highlights the capability of the Perseverance rover's navigation system which is used to traverse on the Martian surface for signs of ancient life along with locating and transporting sample collections of rock back to Earth for analysis. The navigation system consists of Auto navigation system, where it can build 3D mapping of the terrain, identifying the hazards and planning a route around obstacles automatically, Inertial Measurement Unit, which provides 3-axis information on its position like the vertical, horizontal, and side-to-side (yaw) movements, Navcam, two colour stereo Navigation Cameras which typically take wide angle photographs that are used to plan the next moves of the vehicle or object tracking, Hazard Camera, which is mounted on the rover body four on the front and two on the rear, the cameras which it is able to capture 3D views of the surrounding is used for detecting hazards to ...

In the article “NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’” (2021), highlights the capability of its navigation system which is enhanced and improved as compared to the previous navigation systems of the predecessor’s rover. Navigating on mars is hazardous as pathway taken by the rover can lead to trenches, sand dunes and large rocks, in addition, the article said that the rovers teams can’t just control the rover with a joystick, as there was the delay of radio signal between earth and mars, so the rover will take charge driving itself by using the rover navigation systems called AutoNAV, where it is an enhanced system which makes 3D maps of the terrain, identifies hazards, and plans a route around any obstacles. One of the feature that was improve from the Curiosity was AutoNav software, Firstly, in the article “NASA's Perseverance rover is driving itself around Mars using an enhanced auto-navigation system” (2021) said that the enhance Autonav is able to perfo...

In the articles, ”Mars 2020 mission Perseverance rover”(n.d.) and "NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’" (2021), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) documents the operation of the upgraded auto navigation system called AutoNav for the Perseverance rover to traverse the Martian surface for signs of ancient life along with locating and transporting sample collections of rock back to Earth for analysis. The article states that the AutoNav enables the rover to autonomously drive at faster speeds of up to 120 meters per hour while performing 3D mapping of upcoming terrain, hazard identification, and trajectory planning for obstacle avoidance, which consequently reduces the time taken to reach its destination as it can now travel through complex terrains instead of going around them. NASA also mentions that the AutoNav includes ENav which is an enhanced navigation software that aids in more accurate hazard detection of small, pointed ro...