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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Mars Exploration Rover Operations with the Science Activity Planner
– The Science Activity Planner (SAP) is the primary science operations tool for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and NASA’s Software of the Year for 2004. SAP utilizes a vari...
Jeffrey S. Norris, Mark W. Powell, Marsette Vona, ...
ISRR
2005
Springer
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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...
IRI
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Targeting and localization for mars rover operations
— In this work we discuss how the quality of localization knowledge impacts the remote operation of rovers on the surface of Mars. We look at the techniques of localization estim...
Mark W. Powell, Thomas Crockett, Jason Fox, Joseph...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
"Seeing like a rover": embodied experience on the mars exploration rover mission
Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy...
Janet Vertesi
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