CoHORT: Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams
Rover prototype built at CSUN, based on CADRE Mercury 7 rover designs provided by NASA JPL.CoHORT: Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams
The CoHORT (Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams) project is a collaborative effort between researchers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It was proposed as a follow-on to JPL’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) mission, with the goal of adapting its hardware and software designs for academic research. In CADRE, several small rovers were developed from prototypes to flight models and will be deployed to the Moon’s Reiner Gamma region as part of a multi-robot autonomy technology demonstration. These rovers will work as a team to explore the surface autonomously, map the subsurface in 3D, and collect distributed measurements – demonstrating the potential of future multi-robot missions. CoHORT builds on the Mercury 7 CADRE prototypes by reengineering the rover platform for research use, including updates to the mechanical design, compute hardware, and autonomy stack, which replaces the flight-oriented F Prime framework with a novel ROS 2-based architecture.
Roles
Sep 2024-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher @ CSUN ARCS
- Leading technical development of the CoHORT project, building a multi-rover autonomy software stack & research testbed using 3D printed rovers based on the Mercury 7 prototypes developed for the NASA JPL CADRE technology demonstration.
