PathLab Overview

PathLab is the mission-planning workspace in Rover Nexus Fleet Manager. You open it for a selected fleet to draw work areas, generate coverage paths, build missions and operations, and dispatch and monitor your robots — all on a live map.

The workspace

PathLab fills the screen with a single map and a set of panels you open as needed:

Area	What it is
Map	A full-screen satellite/terrain map. You draw boundaries and other features here, place start-point hints, and watch robots move in real time.
Toolbar	The bar of buttons that opens every tool and panel (see below).
Left drawer panels	Lists and monitoring surfaces — robots, features, operations, templates, missions, faults, alerts, messages, audit log.
Right drawer designers	The forms for building things — Coverage settings, the Mission Designer, Make Operation, Survey.
Timeline	A bottom Gantt-style strip of past mission runs and upcoming scheduled work. See Timeline.
Status bar	A footer showing connection status and the current fleet.

The toolbar

The toolbar groups all of PathLab's tools:

• Load — import a GeoJSON file as map features. See Maps and Map Data.
• Survey — measure distances and areas, and place features by coordinate. See Maps and Map Data.
• Coverage — generate a coverage path, rows, or spaced points for a boundary. See Coverage Path Planning.
• Stop All — send a stop command to every robot in the fleet.
• Robots — the fleet's robots and their detail. See Robots Panel.
• Features — the layer list with visibility, deployment, and editing. See Features and Layers.
• Objects — sensor-detected objects around the robots. See Tracked Objects.
• Templates — saved mission templates. See Mission Templates Panel.
• Missions — live mission runs and their progress. See Mission Runs Panel.
• Operations — multi-step operations and their status. See Operations Panel.
• Assign — assign a mission to a robot, now or on a schedule. See Assign Mission.
• Schedule — the calendar of scheduled missions and commands. See Schedule and Calendar.
• Make Mission — open the Mission Designer. See Mission Designer.
• Make Operation — build a haul job or route series. See Make Operation.
• Faults — active robot faults. See Faults Panel.
• Messages — robot status messages. See Robot Messages Panel.
• Alerts — failed-command alerts inbox. See Alerts Inbox.
• Audit Log — a record of commands issued. See Audit Log Panel.

How planning flows

A typical session moves through these stages:

1. Define the work area. Draw or import a boundary and any keep-out or target zones in Features and Layers.
2. Generate a path. Use Coverage Path Planning to turn a boundary into a path, rows, or spaced points.
3. Deploy features to robots so they have the map data they need.
4. Build the work. Create a mission template or an operation.
5. Dispatch. Assign a mission now or schedule it for later.
6. Monitor. Track progress in Mission Runs, the Timeline, and the Faults and Alerts surfaces.

New to PathLab? Start with the operator walkthroughs under Tutorials.