Design and Implementation of Mars Rover Environment Simulator Based on Cyber Physical Systems

In the light of huge manpower, material resources and poor flexibility to build the Martian surface environment on the ground to provide a verification platform for the planetary rover, a design method of Martian environment simulator based on Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) technology is proposed in this paper. On the one hand, it establishes a simulation platform in the digital environment, which is able to change the landform of the environment by adjusting parameters and other conditions to set simulation conditions for the planetary rover flexibly. On the other hand, it can access real products to realize the visual semi-physical simulation and system test of the working process of the planetary rover. By this means, it improves the sufficiency of the ground verification of the rover and reduces the development cost of the rover control system effectively.