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ISER
2004
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Autonomous Navigation Results from the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission
In January, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission landed two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the surface of Mars. Several autonomous navigation capabilities were employ...
Mark W. Maimone, Andrew Edie Johnson, Yang Cheng, ...
JFR
2007
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13 years 3 months ago
Two years of Visual Odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have successfully demonstrated a robotic Visual Odometry capability on another world for the first time. This provides each rover with ...
Mark W. Maimone, Yang Cheng, Larry Matthies
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Field Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers Descent Image Motion Estimation System
– The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) is the first autonomous machine vision system used to safely land a robotics payload on another ...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Reg G. Willson, Jay Goguen, J...
JFR
2007
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13 years 3 months ago
Decisional autonomy of planetary rovers
To achieve the ever increasing demand for science return, planetary exploration rovers require more autonomy to successfully perform their missions. Indeed, the communication dela...
Félix Ingrand, Simon Lacroix, Solange Lemai...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
An Autonomous Sensor-Based Path-Planner for Planetary Microrovers
With the success of Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner rover, a new era of planetary exploration has opened, with demand for highly capable mobile robots. These robots must be able ...
Sharon L. Laubach, Joel W. Burdick