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IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Over-the-horizon, autonomous navigation for planetary exploration
— The success of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers has demonstrated the important benefits that mobility adds to planetary exploration. Very soon, mission requirements will impos...
Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Jean-Luc Bedwani, Erick Dupu...
ISRR
2005
Springer
140views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Tradeoffs Between Directed and Autonomous Driving on the Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have collected a great diversity of geological science results, thanks in large part to their surface mobility capabilities. The six wheel r...
Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Chris Leger, Mark W. Maimo...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Autonomous Detection of Dust Devils and Clouds on Mars
Acquisition of science in space applications is shifting from teleoperated gathering to an automated on-board analysis with improvements in the use of on-board memory, CPU, bandwi...
Alex Fukunaga, Andres Castano, Jeffrey J. Biesiade...
CVIU
2007
143views more  CVIU 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Visual terrain mapping for Mars exploration
One goal for future Mars missions is for a rover to be able to navigate autonomously to science targets not visible to the rover, but seen in orbital or descent images. This can b...
Clark F. Olson, Larry H. Matthies, John R. Wright,...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
98views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Physics-Based Planning for Planetary Exploration
Recently a planetary rover returned important scientific information from Mars. More ambitious missions are planned. New planning methods are required that allow rovers to explore...
Shane Farritor, Hervé Hacot, Steven Dubowsk...