Mars 2020 Perseverence

Science Planning for Perseverance

Developed in collaboration with the SPIFe team from the HCI Group at NASA Ames and the Ground Data Systems (GDS) Subsystem at JPL, Component-based Campaign Planning, Implementation, and Tactical (COCPIT) is the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover adaptation of the Playbook mission planning tool. COCPIT is a web-based application that allows users to collaboratively view and update the Perseverance Rover's activity plans, create and continuously verify constraints, model power and data resources, assign targets for directing scientific instruments, and document science intent.

Animated illustration of the Martian rovers Perseverance and Ingenuity on the Martian planetary surface
Martian rovers Perseverance and Ingenuity on the Martian planetary surface (Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Component-based Campaign Planning, Implementation, and Tactical (COCPIT) Timeline is the primary method for mission planners to visualize the rover’s day-to-day activities
Component-based Campaign Planning, Implementation, and Tactical (COCPIT) Timeline is the primary method for mission planners to visualize the rover’s day-to-day activities (Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Rover Planning Workflow

The COCPIT software is used throughout all planning workflows for the Perseverance Rover, including:

  • Strategic Planning structures activities into reusable components, and verifies that modeling and sequencing work as expected.
  • Campaign Implementation performs look-ahead planning for two or three sols in the future to understand upcoming scheduling and resource restrictions.
  • Tactical Uplink develops a detailed plan of the upcoming sol based on data received from the rover.
  • Tactical Downlink allows viewing the currently executing plan, to understand context of the data being received.

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