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Terrain Adaptive Navigation for planetary rovers

Journal of Field Robotics, 2009
AbstractThis paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental results of a navigation system for planetary rovers called Terrain Adaptive Navigation (TANav). This system was designed to enable greater access to and more robust operations within terrains of widely varying slippage.
Helmick, Daniel, Angelova, Anelia, Matthies, Larry   +2 more
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Dynamic modelling of wheeled planetary rovers

Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Electronic & Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology, 2011
A dynamic model for wheeled planetary rovers based on the pseudo-coordinates approach is presented. The model allows any number of wheels and different types of suspensions to be considered and can used for rovers steered by steering wheels or by slip steering.
CHEN, FENG, GENTA, GIANCARLO, Zhao G.
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Testing of planetary rover wheels

, 2016
All robotic rovers for planetary exploration and the vehicles used to carry astronauts on the surface of the Moon used wheels as running gear. The same applies to the majority of projects for future exploration missions, both for the unmanned and manned rovers.
GENTA, GIANCARLO, PIZZAMIGLIO, CRISTIANO
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Cognitive Maps for Planetary Rovers

Autonomous Robots, 2001
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Enhanced locomotion control for a planetary rover

Proceedings 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003) (Cat. No.03CH37453), 2004
This article presents an approach to improve and monitor the behavior of a skid-steering rover on rough terrains. An adaptive locomotion control generates speeds references to avoid slipping situations. An enhanced odometry provides a better estimation of the distance travelled.
Thierry Peynot, Simon Lacroix
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PRoViScout: a planetary scouting rover demonstrator

SPIE Proceedings, 2012
Mobile systems exploring Planetary surfaces in future will require more autonomy than today. The EU FP7-SPACE Project ProViScout (2010-2012) establishes the building blocks of such autonomous exploration systems in terms of robotics vision by a decision-based combination of navigation and scientific target selection, and integrates them into a ...
Gerhard Paar, Mark Woods, Christiane Gimkiewicz, Frédéric Labrosse, Alberto Medina, Laurence Gethyn Tyler, David Preston Barnes, Gerald Fritz, Konstantinos Kapellos   +8 more
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Ambler: an autonomous rover for planetary exploration

Computer, 1989
The authors are building a prototype legged rover, called the Ambler (loosely an acronym for autonomous mobile exploration robot) and testing it on full-scale, rugged terrain of the sort that might be encountered on the Martian surface. They present an overview of their research program, focusing on locomotion, perception, planning, and control.
John Bares, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, Eric Krotkov, Tom M. Mitchell, Reid G. Simmons, William Whittaker   +6 more
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Spatial coverage planning for a planetary rover

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008
We are developing onboard planning and execution technologies to support the exploration and characterization of geological features by autonomous rovers. In order to generate high quality mission plans, an autonomous rover must reason about the relative importance of the observations it can perform.
Gaines, Daniel M., Estlin, Tara, Chouinard, Caroline   +2 more
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Intentional Control for Planetary Rover SRR

Advanced Robotics, 2008
We demonstrate the operation of the SODAS approach (Self-organized Ontogenetic Development of Autonomous Systems) for on-line processing of sensory inputs and onboard dynamic behavior tasking using SRR2K (Sample Return Rover) platform at the Planetary Robotics indoor facility of JPL.
Robert Kozma 0001, Terry Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Edward W. Tunstel, Roman Ilin, Walter J. Freeman   +5 more
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Fundamental considerations for the design of a planetary rover

Proceedings of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002
Outlines the fundamental considerations for a planetary rover. First, shapes which utilize limitless rotation such as wheels and crawlers, legged shapes, and articulated body shapes were compared, and it was found that the wheel type is currently the optimum for a planetary rover.
Shigeo Hirose, Naritoshi Ootsukasa, Takaya Shirasu, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Kan Yoneda   +4 more
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