NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions will land twin rovers on the surface of Mars
in 2004. These rovers will have the ability to navigate safely through unknown and …

Applications like disaster management and industrial inspection often require experts to
enter contaminated places. To circumvent the need for physical presence, it is desirable to …

Dante II is a unique walking robot that provides important insight into high-mobility robotic
locomotion and remote robotic exploration. Dante II's uniqueness stems from its combined …

Planetary rovers increasingly rely on vision‐based components for autonomous navigation
and map**. Develo** and testing these components requires representative optical …

NASA's Mars exploration rovers'(MER) onboard mobility flight software was designed to
provide robust and flexible operation. The MER vehicles can be commanded directly, or …

NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have collected a great diversity of geological
science results, thanks in large part to their surface mobility capabilities. The six wheel …

The NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission represents one of the longest
deployments of robotic intelligence on remote planetary surfaces thus far. In addition to …

Robot configuration design is hampered by the lack of established, well-known design rules,
and designers cannot easily grasp the design space and the impact of design variables on …

This paper identifies and characterizes factors that contribute to operator workload in
unmanned vehicle systems. Our objective is to provide a basis for develo** models of …

The identification and characterization of hydrated minerals within ancient aqueous
environments on Mars are high priorities for determining the past habitability of the planet …