SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR A DEEP DRILLING MICRO ROVER FOR MARS EXPLORATION

This paper describes the on-board software developed under the Micro Robots for Scientific Applications 2 (MiRo2) activity commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA). The activity designed and developed a Robotic Sampling System a prototype of a tracked rover with a drilling system for deep (up to 2 meters) sampling on a planetary surface. Figure 1 illustrates the Mars rover and lander on Mars.