Terrain-Aware Communication Coverage Prediction for Cooperative Networked Robots in Unstructured Environments
2021
Networked robots will play an important role in lunar exploration. Communication is key to enable cooperation among robots
for information sharing, and to remotely control robots with lower degree of autonomy from a lander or habitat. Operators and
scientists must be able to make sound decisions on communication availability before or during sending robots to regions of
interest for exploration. In this work we have a closer look at the communication coverage prediction for lunar exploration. We
present an interdisciplinary and modular framework, which exploits terrain information to predict the data rate for exploring
robots. Additionally, we create intuitively usable coverage maps for operators and scientists, and show how connectivity can
be improved in unstructured environments by using a relay rover. This paper provides an overview of this framework, details
on individual framework components, and simulation results for two exemplary exploration scenarios.
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