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On Laser Ranging of Lunar Rovers

Cosmic Research, 2023
Previously published articles on laser ranging using reflectors installed on Soviet lunar rovers did not take into account the actual orientation of the lunar rovers on the ground. Taking into account the actual orientation of the lunar rovers makes it possible to determine the angles of incidence, which helps to explain the difference in the ...
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Prospecting Rovers for Lunar Exploration

2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007
A study of rover options for exploring the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar environment is presented. The potential for nearly continuous solar illumination and the possible existence of substantial water ice deposits focus the exploration planner's attention on the polar regions of the Moon.
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Experience with rover navigation for lunar-like terrains

Proceedings 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Human Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots, 2002
Reliable navigation is critical for a lunar rover, both for autonomous traverses and safeguarded, remote teleoperation. This paper describes an implemented system that has autonomously driven a prototype wheeled lunar rover over a kilometer in natural, outdoor terrain.
Simmons, Reid, Krotkov, Eric, Chrisman, Lonnie, Cozman, Fabio, Goodwin, Richard, Hebert, Martial, Lalitesh Katragadda, Koenig, Sven, Krishnaswamy, Gita, Shinoda, Yoshikazu, Whittaker, William, Klarer, Paul   +11 more
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AMALIA Mission Lunar Rover—The conceptual design of the Team ITALIA Rover, candidate for the Google Lunar X Prize Challenge

Acta Astronautica, 2010
Abstract The paper provides an overview of the conceptual design of the Lunar Rover conceived by Team Italia for the AMALIA Mission, candidate for the Google Lunar X Prize Challenge. The name of the mission is an acronym of the Latin language sentence “Ascensio Machinae Ad Lunam Italica Arte”.
DELLA TORRE A, ERCOLI FINZI A, GENTA, GIANCARLO, CURTI F, SCHIRONE L, CAPUANO G, SACCHETTI A, VUKMAN I, MAILLAND F, MONCHIERI E, GUIDI A, TRUCCO R, MUSSO I, LOMBARDI C.   +13 more
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Multi-rover navigation on the lunar surface

Advances in Space Research, 2008
Abstract The paper presents a method of determination an accurate position of a target (rover, immobile sensor, astronaut) on surface of the Moon or other celestial body devoid of navigation infrastructure (like Global Positioning System), by using a group of self-calibrating rovers, which serves as mobile reference points.
Borys Dabrowski, Marek Banaszkiewicz
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Rover deployment system for lunar landing mission

Acta Astronautica, 2017
Abstract For lunar surface exploration, a deployment system is necessary to allow a rover to leave the lander. The system should be as lightweight as possible and stored retracted when launched. In this paper, two types of retractable deployment systems for lunar landing missions, telescopic- and fold-type ramps, are discussed. In the telescopic-type
Masataku Sutoh, Takeshi Hoshino, Sachiko Wakabayashi   +2 more
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Sensing position planning for lunar exploration rovers

2008 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, 2008
In this paper, the authors present a novel criterion for path planning based on the visibility index caused by obstacles detected through laser range sensors when exploring lunar craters. The proposed path planning algorithm calculates an index based on terrain roughness, path length and occlusion, and determines the areas where obstacles may limit the
Andres Mora, Genya Ishigami, Keiji Nagatani, Kazuya Yoshida   +3 more
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MoonIS Spectrometer on RASHID Lunar Rover

Introduction:  The MoonIS instrument is a VIS-IR spectrometer onboard the Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC). The mission is part of the MBRSC lunar exploration program and involves the development and launch of the series of "Rashid" lunar rovers.
M. Cristina De Sanctis, Francesca Altieri, David Biondi, Simone De Angelis, Lorenzo Rossi, Marco Ferrari, Gianrico Filacchione, Mauro Ciarniello, Michelangelo Formisano, Alessandro Frigeri, Andrea Raponi, Valentina Galluzzi, Eleonora Ammannito, Raffaele Pepe, Jacopo Regolini   +14 more
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A navigation simulation system of lunar rover

2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 2008
This paper presents a navigation simulation system on lunar rover. With virtual reality technology, this system serves to verify the kinematics model and the validity of the planning-path for navigating lunar rover. Because the lunar terrain can not be treated as the 2D surface, the kinematics modeling of lunar rover unlike ordinary mobile robots needs
Ji Liu, Yuechao Wang, Chuan Zhou, Yanfeng Geng, Yang Cong   +4 more
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A stereo matching algorithm for lunar rover

2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, 2010
In order to satisfy the requirement of navigation and localization of the lunar rover, a new quasi-dense matching algorithm based on SIFT features and region growing is presented in the paper. Firstly, the original images are preprocessed by Gauss filter and CLAHE method to weaken the effect of noise and contrast, then the invariant SIFT feature points
null Fengping Cao, null Rongben Wang
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