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Testing Planetary Rovers: Technologies, Perspectives, and Lessons LearnedRovers are a vital component of NASA's strategy for manned and unmanned exploration of space. For the past five years, the Intelligent Mechanisms Group at the NASA Ames Research Center has conducted a vigorous program of field testing of rovers from both technology and science team productivity perspective. In this talk, I will give an overview of the the last two years of the test program, focusing on tests conducted in the Painted Desert of Arizona, the Atacama desert in Chile, and on IMG participation in the Mars Pathfinder mission. An overview of autonomy, manipulation, and user interface technologies developed in response to these missions will be presented, and lesson's learned in these missions and their impact on future flight missions will be presented. I will close with some perspectives on how the testing program has affected current rover systems.
Document ID
20020061268
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Thomas, Hans
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Lau, Sonie
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1998
Subject Category
Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence And Robotics
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation
Location: Leuven
Country: Belgium
Start Date: May 16, 1998
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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