Replacement Reality: Driving on Earth While Dreaming of the Moon
Abstract
Long-range autonomous rover traverses for future lunarmissions, such as the Endurance concept, demand high-fidelity,large-scale testbeds to validate perception and localization systemsunder extreme polar conditions. Existing testing approaches havea critical trade-off: physical testbeds using lunar simulant may beterramechanically accurate, but are costly, hazardous, and limited inscale, while purely digital simulations can be flexibly modified, butlack the accuracy of real-world terramechanics and sensor readings
Fields of Study & Subjects
Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- JPL Data
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset