supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61370033);National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB035502);Foundation of Chinese State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems(Grant Nos.SKLRS201401A01,SKLRS-2014-MS-06);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.HIT.BRETIII.201411);Harbin Talent Programme for Distinguished Young Scholars(No.2014RFYXJ001);Postdoctoral Youth Talent Foundation of Heilongjiang Province,China(Grant No.LBH-TZ0403);the"111 Project"(Grant No.B07018)
The great success of the Sojourner rover in the Mars Pathfinder mission set off a global upsurge of planetary exploration with autonomous wheeled mobile robots(WMRs),or rovers.Planetary WMRs are among the most intelli...