Autonomous Vehicle News
Mars rovers could explore caves like Hansel and Gretel: studyWhile cities on Earth are engaged in a constant battle to solve the housing shortage, the market on Mars is already heating up. Engineers at the University of Arizona have developed a system they say could allow autonomous vehicles to explore habitats for astronauts in caves and other underground objects. In one mode, a mother rover passively receives data sent by rovers as they explore caves and lava tubes on Mars. Both modes should allow a team of rovers to navigate underground environments without ever losing contact with their “mother rover” on the surface. Equipped with a light-detection and ranging system known as lidar, the rovers could even map cave passages in three dimensions.