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An Approach to Science and Risk-Aware Planetary Rover Exploration

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022
This work grapples with the challenge of directing autonomous decision making by planetary rovers conducting science investigations. Most of the related work addresses obstacle avoidance and traversabilty, while less work seeks to directly improve ...
A. Candela, David S. Wettergreen
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China’s Roadmap for Planetary Exploration

Nature Astronomy, 2018
China has approved or planned a string of several space exploration missions to be launched over the next decade. A new generation of planetary scientists in China is playing an important role in determining the scientific goals of future missions ...
Zhonghua Yao, Yong Wei, Weixing Wan
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The ARCHES Space-Analogue Demonstration Mission: Towards Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Robots for Collaborative Scientific Sampling in Planetary Exploration

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020
Teams of mobile robots will play a crucial role in future missions to explore the surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies. Setting up infrastructure and taking scientific samples are expensive tasks when operating in distant, challenging, and unknown ...
M. J. Schuster, M. Müller, S. Brunner, H. Lehner, Peter Lehner, Ryo Sakagami, Andreas Dömel, Lukas Meyer, B. Vodermayer, Riccardo Giubilato, Mallikarjuna Vayugundla, Josef Reill, F. Steidle, Ingo von Bargen, Kristin Bussmann, Rico Belder, P. Lutz, W. Stürzl, Michal Smíšek, M. Maier, S. Stoneman, A. Prince, B. Rebele, M. Durner, E. Staudinger, Siwei Zhang, R. Pöhlmann, Esther Bischoff, C. Braun, S. Schröder, E. Dietz, S. Frohmann, A. Börner, H. Hübers, B. Foing, Rudolph Triebel, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, A. Wedler   +37 more
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Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave

Sci. Robotics
Exploration of lava caves on the surface of planetary bodies near Earth is of high importance for scientific research and space exploration. The natural shielding that these caves offer against radiation and small meteorites makes them well suited for ...
Raúl Domínguez, C. Pérez-del-Pulgar, G. J. Paz-Delgado, Fabio Polisano, Jonathan Babel, Thierry Germa, I. Dragomir, Valérie Ciarletti, Anne-Claire Berthet, L. Danter, F. Kirchner   +10 more
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Hazard detection and landing site selection for planetary exploration using LIDAR

IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, 2020
This paper presents an original approach for hazard detection and landing site selection, exploiting LIDAR measurements, to be used in the framework of autonomous planetary exploration scenarios.
D. Mango, R. Opromolla, Christoph Schmitt   +2 more
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Planetary exploration by robotic aerovehicles

Autonomous Robots, 1995
Planetary aerobots are a new type of telerobotic science platform that can fly and navigate in a dynamic 3-dimensional atmospheric environment, thus enabling the global in situ exploration of planetary atmospheres and surfaces. Aerobots are enabled by a new concept in planetary balloon altitude control, developed at JPL, which employs reversible-fluid ...
James A. Cutts, Kerry Nock, Jack A. Jones, Guillermo Rodríguez 0003, J. Balaram   +4 more
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Detecting Minerals and Organics Relevant to Planetary Exploration Using a Compact Portable Remote Raman System at 122 Meters

Applied Spectroscopy, 2020
Raman spectroscopy is a technique that can detect and characterize a range of molecular compounds such as water, water ice, water-bearing minerals, and organics of particular interest to planetary science.
M. Sandford, A. Misra, T. Acosta-Maeda, S. Sharma, J. Porter, M. Egan, M. Abedin   +6 more
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Terrain mapping for a roving planetary explorer

Proceedings, 1989 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003
The main task of perception for autonomous vehicles is to build a representation of the observed environment in order to carry out a mission. In particular, terrain modeling, that is modeling the geometry of the environment observed by the vehicle's semors, is crucial for autonomous underwater exploration.
Martial Hebert, Claude Caillas, Eric Krotkov, In-So Kweon, Takeo Kanade   +4 more
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Aerobots in planetary exploration

2000 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8484), 2002
Robotic balloons (aerobots) may significantly change the future of in situ planetary exploration. On Mars, the aerobots can fill the gap in resolution/coverage between the orbiters and rovers. Powered aerobots (airships) can make controlled global flights for high-resolution radar, visible, infrared, thermal, magnetic, and neutron mapping; they can be ...
V.V. Kerzhanovich, J.A. Cutts
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Characterization of machine learning algorithms for slippage estimation in planetary exploration rovers

Journal of terramechanics, 2019
This paper presents a comprehensive comparison of well-known machine learning algorithms for estimating discrete slip events associated with individual wheels in planetary exploration rovers.
Ramón González, S. Chandler, D. Apostolopoulos   +2 more
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