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JFR
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Decisional autonomy of planetary rovers
To achieve the ever increasing demand for science return, planetary exploration rovers require more autonomy to successfully perform their missions. Indeed, the communication dela...
Félix Ingrand, Simon Lacroix, Solange Lemai...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Physics-Based Planning for Planetary Exploration
Recently a planetary rover returned important scientific information from Mars. More ambitious missions are planned. New planning methods are required that allow rovers to explore...
Shane Farritor, Hervé Hacot, Steven Dubowsk...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
The Atacama Desert Trek: Outcomes
In June and July 1997, Nomad, a planetary-relevant mobile robot, traversed more than 220 kilometers across the barren Atacama Desert in Chile, exploring a landscape analogous to t...
Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, John Murphy, Mark W. M...
CRV
2005
IEEE
192views Robotics» more  CRV 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
3D Reconstruction of Environments for Planetary Exploration
In this paper we present our approach to 3D surface reconstruction from large sparse range data sets. In space robotics constructing an accurate model of the environment is very i...
Sebastien Gemme, Joseph Nsasi Bakambu, Ioannis M. ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...