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The Mars exploration program of NASA and the international community will evolve from an early emphasis on orbital remote sensing toward in situ science activity on, or just above, the Martian surface.
Since the 1960's there have been efforts world-wide to develop robotic mobile vehicles for traversing planetary surfaces.
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Planetary scientist have a unique problem when collecting data for their subject: in the absence of an interplanetary manned space program, they must rely upon remote sensing techniques. An invaluable part of their arsenal is spacecraft which can study the region of interest in detail.
Provided is an overview of emerging technologies in miniaturized roving vehicles that enable new types of low-cost planetary missions, those which are aimed at detailed survey of extended surface areas, collection and analysis of interesting samples, and in-situ analysis of scientific data. New types of planetary surface data can be acquired at low-cost through the use of innovative technologies.
This paper summarizes salient activities within the NASA Telerobotics Program, emphasizing complete telerobotic system prototypes which have been built and tested in realistic scenarios relevant to prospective users. This paper also describes complementary developments in innovative component technologies.
The goal of our program is to develop, integrate and demonstrate the science and technology of remote telerobotics leading to increases in operational capability, safety, cost effectiveness and probability of success of NASA missions. To that end, the program fosters the development of innovative system concepts for on-orbit servicing and planetary surface missions which use telerobotic systems as an important central component. These concepts are carried forward into develoments which are used to evaluate and demonstrate technology in realistic flight and ground experiments.
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In this paper, we present the development of ROAMS software for real-time simulation of mobile robotic vehicles.
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating mutiple agents.
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This paper describes several Jet Propulsion Laboratory research efforts being conducted to support Mars sample return in the coming decade.
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