Long Range Navigation For Mars Rovers Using Sensor-Based Path Planning and Visual Localisation
The Mars Pathfinder mission illustrated the benefits of including a mobile robotic explorer on a plantary mission.
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Laubach, S.
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Enhanced Mars Rover Navigation Techniques
Robust navigation through rocky terrain by small mobile robots is important for maximizing science return from upcoming missions to Mars.
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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.
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An Autonomous Path Planner Implemented on the Rocky7 Prototype Microrover
Much prior work in mobile robot path planning has been based on assumptions that are not really applicable for exploration of planetary terrains.
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The Rocky 7 Rover: A Mars Sciencecraft Prototype
This paper describes the design and implementation of a small rover for future Mars missions requiring long traverses and rover-based science experiments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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