HALO: Hazard-Aware Landing Optimization for Autonomous Systems

Christopher R. Hayner,Samuel C. Buckner,Daniel Broyles,Evelyn Madewell,Karen Leung,Behçet Açikmeşe,Christopher R. Hayner,Samuel C. Buckner,Daniel Broyles,Evelyn Madewell,Karen Leung,Behçet Açikmeşe

With autonomous aerial vehicles enacting safety-critical missions, such as the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, the tasks of automatically identifying and reasoning about potentially hazardous landing sites is paramount. This paper presents a coupled perception-planning solution which addresses the hazard detection, optimal landing trajectory generation, and contingency p...