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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
First Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile
- The Atacama Desert of northern Chile may be the most lifeless place on Earth, yet where the desert meets the Pacific coastal range desiccation-tolerant micro-organisms are known ...
David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, James Teza, Pa...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
The Atacama Desert Trek: Outcomes
In June and July 1997, Nomad, a planetary-relevant mobile robot, traversed more than 220 kilometers across the barren Atacama Desert in Chile, exploring a landscape analogous to t...
Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, John Murphy, Mark W. M...
RAS
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Mission-level path planning and re-planning for rover exploration
The Life in the Atacama (LITA) project seeks to develop technologies for robotic life detection and apply them to the investigation of the Atacama Desert. Its field investigation ...
Paul Tompkins, Anthony Stentz, David Wettergreen
ICRA
2008
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Information-optimal selective data return for autonomous rover traverse science and survey
— Selective data return leverages onboard data analysis to allocate limited bandwidth resources during remote exploration. Here we present an adaptive method to subsample image s...
David R. Thompson, Trey Smith, David Wettergreen