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JFR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Two years of Visual Odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have successfully demonstrated a robotic Visual Odometry capability on another world for the first time. This provides each rover with ...
Mark W. Maimone, Yang Cheng, Larry Matthies
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...
ISER
2004
Springer
172views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomous Navigation Results from the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission
In January, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission landed two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the surface of Mars. Several autonomous navigation capabilities were employ...
Mark W. Maimone, Andrew Edie Johnson, Yang Cheng, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 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
AR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Slip-compensated path following for planetary exploration rovers
A system that enables continuous slip compensation for a Mars rover has been designed, implemented, and field-tested. This system is composed of several components that allow the ...
Daniel M. Helmick, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Yang C...