Automated planning and scheduling for planetary rover distributed operations

Automated planning and scheduling, including automated path planning, has been integrated with an Internet-based distributed operations system for planetary rover operations. The resulting prototype system enables faster generation of valid rover command sequences by a distributed planetary rover operations team. The Web Interface for Telescience provides Internet-based distributed collaboration, the automated scheduling and planning environment provides automated planning and scheduling, and an automated path planner provides path planning. The system was demonstrated on the Rocky7 research rover at JPL.