Data Visualization for Effective Rover Sequencing

The Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program is a suite of tools for the commanding of planetary rovers which are subject to significant light time delay and thus are unsuitable for tele-operation. The two main components of the program are the Rover Sequence Editor and HyperDrive. This paper will focus on HyperDrive, the immersive visualization component of the system. HyperDrive fuses multiple data types returned from the vehicle in order to facilitate an operator understanding of the current environment and past rover performance, so that safe effective command sequences for successful future rover activities may be generated on a tight tactical timeline. Multiple display and task specific interaction modalities are provided to most efficiently present relevant spatial and time series data to the sequence builder.