Search Results - "Red Whittaker, William L."
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Productive Lightweight Robotic Excavation for the Moon and Mars
Published in Journal of aerospace engineering (01-07-2014)“…AbstractExploration of the Moon and Mars calls for robots that are increasingly capable in regolith, or granular soil. Beyond traversing and avoiding…”
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Micro Rover Mission for Measuring Lunar Polar Ice
Published in 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100) (06-03-2021)“…Lunar ice, present at the poles, could be a source of water for drinking and growing crops, generating oxygen for breathing, and producing propellants for…”
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Mapping planetary caves with an autonomous, heterogeneous robot team
Published in 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference (01-03-2013)“…Caves on other planetary bodies offer sheltered habitat for future human explorers and numerous clues to a planet's past for scientists. While recent orbital…”
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Experimental Results of Autonomous Microrover Exploration and Mapping of an Analog Planetary Pit
Published in 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO) (05-03-2022)“…Hundreds of pits on the Moon and Mars expose unique unweathered geology on their walls, and some may access habitable caves. Small, autonomous rovers could…”
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Position estimation by registration to planetary terrain
Published in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) (01-09-2012)“…LIDAR-only and camera-only approaches to global localization in planetary environments have relied heavily on availability of elevation data. The…”
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