{"id":156129,"date":"2026-10-28T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//?p=156129"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:32:32","slug":"ucf-engineers-develop-digital-rover-twin-to-help-navigate-future-nasa-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//ucf-engineers-develop-digital-rover-twin-to-help-navigate-future-nasa-missions/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Engineers Develop Digital Rover Twin to Help Navigate Future NASA Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p><em>Landing humans on the moon was just a dream when UCF was founded in 1963. But we dared to believe /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2014 developing the talent and inventing the technologies to make it reality. 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"text-center pt-4 line-height-1 font-size-sm/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/">Where Global Leaders Unite to Forge the Future of Space</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//div>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//section>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/t/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<hr>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>A rover/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s next move on another planet could begin in a UCF lab.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Before its wheels encounter a rocky slope or an unexpected obstacle, a virtual assistant could help operators answer a critical question: Can it get through?</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Luis Rabelo, a professor in UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//college/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//engineering-computer-science/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/">College of Engineering and Computer Science</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//a>, is leading a team of <a 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By testing a rover/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s movements virtually before executing commands, operators could anticipate obstacles and evaluate potential actions without waiting for every instruction to travel to the robot and back.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>The research builds on an international collaboration involving Rabelo and UCF planetary scientist <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//sciences.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//physics/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//person/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//phillip-metzger/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"><strong>Phillip Metzger</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//strong> <strong>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201900MS /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201905PhD</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//strong></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//a>, director 色花堂/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//sciences.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//physics/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//microgravity/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/">Stephen Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//a>. 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The robots are equipped with iPhone cameras and LiDAR sensors that help create the digital twin of the robot and its surroundings.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>The team uses RE-RASSOR, the Research and Education Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot, a low-cost, 3D-printed educational platform adapted from NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s original RASSOR mining robot.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Each rover costs approximately $400 to produce, allowing students to experiment with digital twin software on comparatively inexpensive hardware, says Gray, a <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//degree/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//mechanical-engineering-bsme/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/">mechanical engineering</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//a> alum. That accessibility could make advanced robotics research more feasible for university laboratories with limited resources.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>During a demonstration, Gray showed how an iPhone/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s camera and LiDAR sensor, mounted on the rover, help the system construct a 3D virtual representation of the robot and its surroundings in real time.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s a two-way street. The robot is constantly sending its position /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2014 you can move it in the digital twin, and then that will be sent to the robot. &#8230; At the end of the day, you want them mirroring each other,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d Gray says.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Rabelo says a digital twin/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s update frequency must reflect the behavior of the physical system it represents. For robotic systems, that means accounting for changes second by second rather than relying on the longer-term predictions used in conventional simulations.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cThe digital twin depends on the time constant of the system,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d Rabelo says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cThat/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s the difference./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>That connection between physical and virtual systems could help operators make more informed decisions in unfamiliar lunar or planetary terrain.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cSay on the moon, if the environment is very bumpy, rocky, you might not always know if a command is going to be successful or not,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d Gray says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cSo you can see in the simulation if it can go over this bump successfully. And then if it does, then you can do it on the real rover with a lot more confidence than if you didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019t have the simulation./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<h2>Building on Earlier Research</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>The work grew out of a collaboration between UCF and the Universidad Polit/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u00e9cnica de Durango in Mexico. During the 2025-26 academic year, Rabelo and Metzger advised an international senior design project focused on developing an AI-driven digital twin of RASSOR.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>A central objective was to investigate how digital twins could help operators work around communication delays. The farther a robot travels from Earth, the longer commands and information can take to pass between it and the people directing it.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Rabelo describes a test scenario with a simulated three-second delay in each direction, creating a six-second round trip. The digital twin could help operators anticipate the rover/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s behavior and identify potential problems before they occur.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<h2>Preparing for Future Space Exploration</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Rabelo envisions expanding the research beyond individual rovers to groups of autonomous robots collaborating on complex logistics tasks at the moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s south pole.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Different robots could perform specialized tasks, from surveying terrain and identifying resources to collecting materials and transporting equipment. A shared digital twin could help coordinate their movements across a larger environment.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201cYou have to have a bigger digital [twin] of the entire piece of the moon where all of those things have to go,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u201d Rabelo says.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>Such technology could eventually help researchers coordinate robotic operations across distant planetary environments, where communication delays make continuous human oversight difficult.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p>For now, this student-built platform lays the groundwork for a larger ambition: helping future robotic teams explore farther, with operators better prepared for what comes next.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<hr>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/n<p><em>The research received $5,000 in support from the Florida Space Grant Consortium through UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/156129/u2019s Florida Space Institute. 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