RockFormer: A U-shaped transformer network for Martian rock segmentation

H Liu, M Yao, X **ao, Y **ong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Martian rock segmentation aims to separate rock pixels from background, which plays a
crucial role in downstream tasks, such as traversing and geologic analysis by Mars rovers …

Finally! insights into the arches lunar planetary exploration analogue campaign on etna in summer 2022

A Wedler, MG Müller, M Schuster, M Durner… - … Congress, IAC 2022, 2022 - elib.dlr.de
This paper summarises the first outcomes of the space demonstration mission of the
ARCHES project which could have been performed this year from 13 june until 10 july on …

Preliminary results for the multi-robot, multi-partner, multi-mission, planetary exploration analogue campaign on mount etna

A Wedler, MG Müller, M Schuster, M Durner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - elib.dlr.de
This paper was initially intended to report on the outcome of the twice postponed
demonstration mission of the ARCHES project. Due to the global COVID pandemic, it has …

Mobile manipulation of a laser-induced breakdown spectrometer for planetary exploration

P Lehner, R Sakagami, W Boerdijk… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is an established analytical technique to
measure the elemental composition of rocks and other matter on the Martian surface. We …

CLOVER: Contrastive Learning for Onboard Vision-Enabled Robotics

GM Vincent, IR Ward, C Moore, J Chen, K Pak… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Current deep-learning models employed by the planetary science community are
constrained by a dearth of annotated training data for planetary images. Current models also …

Uncertainty estimation for planetary robotic terrain segmentation

MG Müller, M Durner, W Boerdijk… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrain Segmentation information is crucial input for current and future planetary robotic
missions. Labeling training data for terrain segmentation is a difficult task and can often …

Resyris-a real-synthetic rock instance segmentation dataset for training and benchmarking

W Boerdijk, MG Müller, M Durner… - 2023 IEEE Aerospace …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exploration of our solar system for understanding its creation and investigating potential
chances of life on other celestial bodies is a fundamental drive of human mankind. After …

Autonomous rock instance segmentation for extra-terrestrial robotic missions

M Durner, W Boerdijk, Y Fanger… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The collection and analysis of extra-terrestrial matter are two of the main motivations for
space exploration missions. Due to the inherent risks for participating astronauts during …

Interactive OAISYS: A photorealistic terrain simulation for robotics research

MG Müller, J Lim, L Schmid, H Blum, W Stürzl… - ICRA 2022 Workshop …, 2022 - elib.dlr.de
Photorealistic simulation pipelines are crucial for the development of novel robotic methods
and modern machine vision approaches. Simulations have been particularly popular for …