Optical designs for the Mars '03 Rover cameras
In 2003, NASA is planning to send two robotic rover vehicles to explore the surface of mars. The spacecraft will land on airbags in different, carefully chosen locations.
Optical design Mars Rover↗
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FIDO: a Field Integrated Design & Operation rover for Mars surface exploration
We overview or recent development and testing of the FIDO rover, an advanced technology prototype for long range mobile planetary science.
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Approximate reasoning for safety and survivability of planetary rovers
This paper describes rover safety issues and presents an approximate reasoning approach to maintaining vehicle safety in a navigational context.
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RF characterization of the Mars Exploration Rover radar altimeter antennas-airbag interaction
This paper presents the experimental results of the Mars Exploration Rover-03 (MER) radar altimeter antennas-airbag interaction.
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The Mars Exploration Rover suncam
One of the onboard cameras is to point the high gain antenna at Earth and to provide a reference for the inertial measurement unit that is used for rover navigation.
Mars rover sunsensing CCD centroiding↗
Relating downlink products to uplink commands in Mars Rover operations
We discuss how downlink data products in Mars rover missions need to be associated with their uplink commanded target locations and the uplink commands that produced them.
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Internet-based Ground Operations for Mars Lander and Rover Missions
The Web Interface for Telescience (WITS) has been developed to provide Internet-based ground operations for planetary lander and rover missions.
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Using Continuous Planning Techniques to Coordinate Multiple Rovers
This paper describes a dynamic planning system for coordinating multiple rovers in collecting planetary surface data.
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Coordinated continual planning methods for cooperating rovers
This paper compares and contrasts several coordination schemes for a system that continuously plans to control collections of rovers (or spacecraft) using collective mission goals, instead of goals or command sequences for each spacecraft.
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A tool for autonomous ground-based rover planning
This paper discusses a proof-of-concept prototype for ground-based automatic generation of validated rover command sequences from high-level science and engineering activities.
automated planning scheduling rover operations art↗
Autonomous Navigation of Planetary Rovers: A Fuzzy Logic Approach
This paper presents an new strategy for autonomous navigation of planetary rovers using the fuzzy logic framework and novel on-board measure of terrain traversability.
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NASA's Science Rover for MUSES-C
JPL is building an instrumented rover to be carried by the MUSES-C spacecraft to an asteroid to make in-situ scientific observations from the asteroid surface.
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Inflatable Rovers for Planetary Applications
A new task has recently been initiated at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, fabricate and test an inflatable rover that can be used for various planetary applications, including operation on the Earth's moon, on Mars, on Saturn's moon Titan and on Jupiter's moon, Europa.
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The Mars Rover Mobility System
The Mars Pathfinder SOJOURNER Rover vehicle has completed its mission. It explored the vicinity of the lander, probing the Martian surface while getting pictures of the rocks and the way they are arranged. It analyzed the chemical make up of the soil and the various rocks.
Mars Rover Mobility Sojourner Mars Pathfinder↗
Point Designs of Mobility Systems for Meso-Scale Rovers
One of the advantages of using small rovers for exploration is the potential for the creation of point designs.
Mobility Systems Meso-Scale Rovers Pixel Popper Wo↗
A Prototype Manipulation System for Mars Rover Science Operations
This paper provides an overview of a new manipulation system developed for sampling and instrument placement from small autonomous mobile robots for Mars exploration. Selected out of the design space, two manipulators have been constructed and integrated into the Rocky 7 Mars rover prototype. This paper describes objectives and constraints for these manipulators, and presents the finished system and some results from its operation.
Mars Rover manipulation system sampling instrument↗
Structural Design Challenges for Mars Rovers
On July 4, 1997 the Pathfinder Mission Successfully began a new era of robotic exploration of Mars. The primary scientific payload of the Pathfinder Lander is the Sojourner Truth Mars Rover, an autonomous robotic vehicle, which is exploring and conducting scientific measurements on the Mars surface.
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Maximum Likelihood Rover Localization by Matching Range Maps
This paper describes maximum likelihood estimation techniques for performing rover localization in natural terrain by matching range maps.
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