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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
IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Over-the-horizon, autonomous navigation for planetary exploration
— 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...
ALIFE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD
A new approach called bioinspired engineering of exploration systems (BEES) and its value for solving pressing NASA and DoD needs are described. Insects (for example honeybees and ...
Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Sriniv...
CGI
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic 3D Maps and Their Texture-Based Design
Three-dimensional maps are fundamental tools for presenting, exploring, and manipulating geo data. This paper describes multiresolution concepts for 3D maps and their texture-base...
Jürgen Döllner, Klaus Hinrichs
AROBOTS
2005
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13 years 4 months ago
Terrain Classification Using Weakly-Structured Vehicle/Terrain Interaction
We present a new terrain classification technique both for effective, autonomous locomotion over rough, unknown terrains and for the qualitative analysis of terrains for exploratio...
Amy C. Larson, Guleser K. Demir, Richard M. Voyles