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| Inspector SCRover |
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Inspector SCRover (Southern California Rover) is a public
safety robot being developed for the University of Southern
California (USC), Department of Public Safety (DPS). Inspector
SCRover shall enable the DPS to verify threats, involving
suspicious materials, without a risk to human life. DPS
shall send the Inspector SCRover in areas where suspicious
materials may be present. Inspector SCRover shall enter
the areas where hazardous materials are suspected to be
present and return images of the surrounding environment.
The USC DPS personnel shall analyze these images and determine
if the materials pose a real threat to the environment,
and shall act accordingly. DPS has approached the USC’s
Center for Software Engineering (USC CSE) with a proposal
to develop the Inspector SCRover. The
Center of Software Engineering has decided to use the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s), Mission
Data Systems (MDS) framework to develop this application.
The MDS framework is a reusable mobile rover development
software that NASA-JPL is going to use in their Rocky
7 rover to be sent to Mars in the year 2009. CSE shall
be the first organization to test the reusability of this
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figure above shows the Pioneer 2 AT robot named Clifford
being used for this project |
The High Dependability Computing
program is developing a software testbed in order to test
and compare the dependability related software development
technologies and strategies. These technologies and strategies
shall be used in NASA, and other dependability critical
applications developed by the government, industry and
research community. More information on HDCP testbed can
be found here. |
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