NASA NTRS · 20230005661
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Navigation Filter
Abstract
The Mars 2020 (M2020) Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) system delivered a rover named “Perseverance” at Jezero crater (Mars) on February 18th, 2021. M2020 EDL used a Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) system to achieve its landing target objectives. The navigation filter (NavFilter) integrated Descent Inertial Measurement Unit (DIMU) measurements to estimate position and attitude. The NavFilter also used the Terminal Descent Sensor (TDS) to es-timate surface-relative position and velocity corrections. The NavFilter provided all of the dynamic state information to the entry controller, entry guidance, Lander Vision System (LVS) and powered descent guidance and control algo-rithms. The NavFilter for Perseverance is based on Curiosity’s NavFilter with a couple of modifications.
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Casoliva, Jordi, Brugarolas, Paul, San Martin, A. Miguel, Serricchio, Frederick. 2021-08-09. The Mars 2020 Perseverance Navigation Filter. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230005661
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