PUFFER—the Pop-Up, Flat-Folding Explorer Robot—is a low-mass, low-volume, low-cost rover platform for exploring extreme terrains. Together, many PUFFERs can collaborate to overcome challenges too risky for a single rover to take on. A-PUFFER will enable the PUFFERs to operate autonomously to achieve this objective.
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In addition to enabling applications that are not achievable via a single rover (e.g., distributed measurements), multi-rover systems gain some resilience though not only hardware redundancy, but autonomous functions to achieve graceful degradation through the reallocation of resources. Consequently, multi-rover systems can also be more responsive to changes in the mission or unanticipated anomalies or whenever there is significant uncertainty.
Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | Lead Organization | FFRDC/UARC | Pasadena, California |