Repurposing Drilling Control Diagnostics for Subsurface Edge Detection and Boundary Advisement during Planetary Drilling
Publication: Earth and Space 2022
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Since the 1980s, technology advances have taken drilling diagnostics systems from offline rule-based expert-systems drilling advisors to real-time drilling and sampling automation and control systems capable of standalone prospecting and subsurface sampling in planetary missions. As an example of the latter, the recent ARADS project demonstrated autonomous drilling and health management from a rover at a terrestrial analog site. In this paper we discuss inverting or repurposing the ARADS drilling control and onboard diagnostics to create a drilling advisory console tool, with the intent of improving situational awareness and subsurface feature recognition in support of science mission operations.
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