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This paper will detail the experience of driving Opportunity through this alien landscape from the point of view of the Rover Planners, the people who tell the rover where to drive and how to use its robotic arm.
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This paper describes recent field trials performed using the FIDO rover, an advanced NASA technology development platform and research prototype for the next planned rover mission to Mars.
We describe the approach taken to improve mission-relevant fidelity of the rover system in support of resource modeling, contingency sequencing, and added rover functionality as proposed for the actual mission.
The Parallel Telemetry Processor (PTEP), a high-speed, robust, and extensible telemetry processing system is discussed in this paper.
The FIDO platform of the JPL has been used to evaluate the ability of autonomous obstacle avoidance developed by JPL and CNES autonomous long range path planning. The test results show that only a very small amount of energy and computing time is used to implement autonomy and that the capabilities of the rover are fully used, allowing a much longer daily traverse than purely ground-planned strategies.
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This paper describes several Jet Propulsion Laboratory research efforts being conducted to support Mars sample return in the coming decade.
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We report on the development of new mobile robots for Mars exploration missions.
Robotic exploration of the Martian surface will provide important scientific data on planetary climate, life history, and geologic resources.
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We report a significant advance in space robotics design based on innovation of 3D composite structures and piezoelectronic actuation.
The development of NDE techniques has always been driven by the ongoing need for low-cost, rapid, user-friendly, reliable and efficient methods of detecting and characterizing flaws as well as determining material properties.
There are significant international efforts underway to place mobile robots (rovers) on the surface of Mars.