This paper describes TEMPEST, a planner that enables a solar-powered rover to reason about path selection and event placement in terms of available solar energy and anticipated po...
Scarab is a prototype rover for Lunar missions to survey resources in polar craters. It is designed as a prospector that would use a deep coring drill and apply soil analysis inst...
David Wettergreen, Scott Moreland, Krzysztof Skoni...
In this paper, we investigate the use of overhead high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) data for enhancing the performances of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) in vegetated terra...
Nicolas Vandapel, Raghavendra Donamukkala, Martial...
— When navigating in an unknown environment for the first time, a natural behavior consists in memorizing some key views along the performed path, in order to use these referenc...
Guillaume Le Blanc, Youcef Mezouar, Philippe Marti...
The Mobile Agents model-based, distributed architecture, which integrates diverse components in a system for lunar and planetary surface operations, was extensively tested in a tw...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Rich Alena, ...