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Robotic astrobiology - enhancing scientific productivity of planetary rover missions

机器人天体生物学 - 提高行星漫游者任务的科学生产力

基本信息

批准号：
RGPIN-2017-06277
负责人：
Ellery, Alex
金额：
$ 1.6万
依托单位：
Carleton University
依托单位国家：
加拿大
项目类别：
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
加拿大
起止时间：
2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=678868
关键词：
Robotic astrobiology enhancing scientific productivity

项目摘要

This proposal involves attempting to provide a sophisticated robotic scientist facility onboard future planetary rovers. In particular, Mars is of interest for its astrobiological potential but Mars is remote and distant. The communications windows to the Martian surface from Earth are sporadic and fleeting. This makes making a Mars rover smarter essential especially since they are proxies for scientists on Earth. If we do not impart sufficient scientific intelligence to the rover, it may miss important scientific phenomena. This proposal seeks to redress that by making the rover smart enough to make scientific decisions on its own. This will involve a complex interplay of image processing, expert systems and learning neural networks to model how a human scientist thinks. This is not to replace the human geologist or astrobiologist of course, merely to augment them. Until human astronauts land on Mars, these rovers are our proxies, performing scientific investigations on our behalf. By giving them enhanced scientific capabilities, we can maximise their scientific productivity so we can learn more about these extraterrestrial environments, and ultimately, whether life does, or has, existed on Mars. Currently, very few people are working on this aspect so this offers an opportunity for Canadian engineers and scientists to take the lead in this field. It will become increasingly important as future rover missions become more sophisticated and demanding.

这项提议涉及试图在未来的行星漫游者上提供一个先进的机器人科学家设施。特别是，火星因其天体生物学潜力而受到关注，但火星遥远而遥远。从地球到火星表面的通信窗口是零星和短暂的。这使得火星探测器变得更智能至关重要，特别是因为它们是地球科学家的代理人。如果我们不向漫游者提供足够的科学情报，它可能会错过重要的科学现象。这项提议试图通过使漫游者足够聪明，能够自己做出科学决策来解决这个问题。这将涉及图像处理、专家系统和学习神经网络的复杂相互作用，以模拟人类科学家的思维方式。当然，这并不是要取代人类地质学家或天体生物学家，只是为了增强他们。在人类宇航员登陆火星之前，这些漫游者是我们的代理人，代表我们进行科学调查。通过增强他们的科学能力，我们可以最大限度地提高他们的科学生产力，这样我们就可以更多地了解这些外星环境，并最终了解火星上是否存在生命。目前，很少有人从事这方面的工作，因此这为加拿大工程师和科学家提供了一个在这一领域领先的机会。随着未来的漫游者任务变得更加复杂和苛刻，它将变得越来越重要。