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Model Predictive Control of a Novel Wheeled–Legged Planetary Rover for Trajectory Tracking [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Amid increasing demands for planetary exploration, wide-range autonomous exploration is still a great challenge for existing planetary rovers, which calls for new planetary rovers with novel locomotive mechanisms and corresponding control strategies ...
Jun He +3 more
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Deep probabilistic traversability with test-time adaptation for uncertainty-aware planetary rover navigation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTraversability assessment of deformable terrain is vital for safe rover navigation on planetary surfaces. Machine learning (ML) is a powerful tool for traversability prediction but its inherent predictive uncertainty increases the risk of wheel slips and
Masafumi Endo +2 more
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Rover Science Autonomy in Planetary Exploration: Field Analog Tests
The Planetary Science JournalA strategy for planetary exploration using a rover capable of science autonomy is presented. We encoded into a rover a set of driving hypotheses pertaining to the geologic origin of a field site and equipped the rover with the instrumentation needed to ...
Eldar Z. Noe Dobrea +26 more
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BASEPROD: The Bardenas Semi-Desert Planetary Rover Dataset [PDF]
Scientific DataDataset acquisitions devised specifically for robotic planetary exploration are key for the advancement, evaluation, and validation of novel perception, localization, and navigation methods in representative environments. Originating in the Bardenas semi-
Levin Gerdes +10 more
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Low-cost, multi-agent systems for planetary surface exploration [PDF]
, 2012 The use of off-the-shelf consumer electronics combined with top-down design methodologies have made small and inexpensive satellites, such as CubeSats, emerge as viable, low-cost and attractive space-based platforms that enable a range of new and ...
Punzo, Giuliano +4 more
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Automatic goal allocation for a planetary rover with DSmT [PDF]
, 2009 In this chapter, we propose an approach for assigning aninterest level to the goals of a planetary rover. Assigning an interest level to goals, allows the rover to autonomously transform and reallocate the goals.
Vasile, M., Ceriotti, M.
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Earth and Space Science, 2023 In this paper we describe a method to compute spatial scales for images acquired by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory, MSL). The method is based on the assumption that the rover stands on an infinite plane that may have any orientation
Walter Goetz +4 more
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Design and Research Co-Simulation Platform of Navigation and Dynamics on Planetary Rovers
Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2019 The overall design idea of simulation platform of the planetary rover coupling navigation and dynamics is proposed to address the dilemma faced in the design of a navigation control system for Mars and other planetary exploration tasks.
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The Katwijk beach planetary rover dataset [PDF]
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2017 This paper describes a dataset collected along a 1 km section of beach near Katwijk, The Netherlands, which was populated with a collection of artificial rocks of varying sizes to emulate known rock size densities at current and potential Mars landing sites.
Robert A. Hewitt +6 more
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Visual SLAM-Based Robotic Mapping Method for Planetary Construction
Sensors, 2021 With the recent discovery of water-ice and lava tubes on the Moon and Mars along with the development of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) technology, the recent planetary exploration has focused on rover (or lander)-based surface missions toward the ...
Sungchul Hong +4 more
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