Current NASA plans call for extended year-long, multikilometer treks for the 2003 and 2005 Mars missions. A much greater amount of rover autonomy is required compared to the recen...
Intentional behavior is a basic property of intelligence and it incorporates the cyclic operation of prediction, testing by action, sensing, perceiving, and assimilating the exper...
Robert Kozma, Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian,...
Autonomous planetary rovers operating in vast unknown environments must operate efficiently because of size, power and computing limitations. Recently, we have developed a rover c...
Sanjiv Singh, Reid G. Simmons, Trey Smith, Anthony...
Off-road autonomous navigation is one of the most difficult automation challenges from the point of view of constraints on mobility, speed of motion, lack of environmental structur...
To achieve the ever increasing demand for science return, planetary exploration rovers require more autonomy to successfully perform their missions. Indeed, the communication dela...