An MBSE Approach for Developing an Autonomous Rover Platform

Ignacio G López-Francos; Seydou Mbaye; Samantha Infeld

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An MBSE Approach for Developing an Autonomous Rover Platform

Ignacio G López-Francos·Seydou Mbaye·Samantha Infeld

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The proliferation of increasingly autonomous systems calls for new ways to address how safety is assured. As these systems become more advanced and complex, it becomes more important to model and prototype autonomous functions at the systems level and the functions that assure they are operating safely and as expected. To that effect, researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 's Robust Software Engineering (RSE) group are working on prototyping a Research Autonomous Vehicle, commonly referred to as R-RAV. The R-RAV is an autonomous rover platform designed to act as a case study for assured autonomy research. Moreover, an overarching goal is for the R-RAV to serve as a training ground for other mission projects. In this paper, we will detail how we have used a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach to model a prototype of the R-RAV and test and verify its different functionalities.

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Ignacio G López-Francos, Seydou Mbaye, Samantha Infeld. 2023-01-23. An MBSE Approach for Developing an Autonomous Rover Platform. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20220010070

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