— 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...