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Micro Rover Mission for Measuring Lunar Polar Ice by Schweitzer, Lydia, Jamal, Haidar, Jones, Heather, Wettergreen, David, Red Whittaker, William L.

“…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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Advantages of continuous excavation in lightweight planetary robotic operations by Skonieczny, K, Wettergreen, DS, Whittaker, WL “Red”

“…Planetary excavator robots face unique and extreme engineering constraints relative to terrestrial counterparts. In space missions mass is always at a premium…”
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A robust approach to high-speed navigation for unrehearsed desert terrain by Urmson, Chris, Ragusa, Charlie, Ray, David, Anhalt, Joshua, Bartz, Daniel, Galatali, Tugrul, Gutierrez, Alexander, Johnston, Josh, Harbaugh, Sam, "Yu" Kato, Hiroki, Messner, William, Miller, Nick, Peterson, Kevin, Smith, Bryon, Snider, Jarrod, Spiker, Spencer, Ziglar, Jason, "Red" Whittaker, William, Clark, Michael, Koon, Phillip, Mosher, Aaron, Struble, Josh

“…This article presents a robust approach to navigating at high speed across desert terrain. A central theme of this approach is the combination of simple ideas…”
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Productive Lightweight Robotic Excavation for the Moon and Mars by Skonieczny, Krzysztof, Delaney, Matthew, Wettergreen, David S, “Red” Whittaker, William L

“…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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Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge by Urmson, Chris, Anhalt, Joshua, Bagnell, Drew, Baker, Christopher, Bittner, Robert, Clark, M. N., Dolan, John, Duggins, Dave, Galatali, Tugrul, Geyer, Chris, Gittleman, Michele, Harbaugh, Sam, Hebert, Martial, Howard, Thomas M., Kolski, Sascha, Kelly, Alonzo, Likhachev, Maxim, McNaughton, Matt, Miller, Nick, Peterson, Kevin, Pilnick, Brian, Rajkumar, Raj, Rybski, Paul, Salesky, Bryan, Seo, Young-Woo, Singh, Sanjiv, Snider, Jarrod, Stentz, Anthony, Whittaker, William "Red", Wolkowicki, Ziv, Ziglar, Jason, Bae, Hong, Brown, Thomas, Demitrish, Daniel, Litkouhi, Bakhtiar, Nickolaou, Jim, Sadekar, Varsha, Zhang, Wende, Struble, Joshua, Taylor, Michael, Darms, Michael, Ferguson, Dave

“…Boss is an autonomous vehicle that uses on‐board sensors (global positioning system, lasers, radars, and cameras) to track other vehicles, detect static…”
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Thermal Management Considerations For Lunar Polar Micro-Rovers by Fisch, Paulo R. M., Whittaker, William Red

“…This research addresses the significant challenge of thermal regulation for lunar polar micro-rovers. These are distinct from priors by way of very small size,…”
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Self-Driving Cars and the Urban Challenge by Urmson, C., Whittaker, W.

“…Self-driving cars have been a dream as long automobiles have existed. The automobile is ubiquitous in the developed world and is becoming so in the developing…”
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Computationally efficient information-theoretic exploration of pits and caves by Tabib, Wennie, Corah, Micah, Michael, Nathan, Whittaker, Red

“…This paper presents a real-time, kinodynamic planning and information-theoretic exploration framework that enables high-resolution mapping of three-dimensional…”
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Comparative evaluation of range sensing technologies for underground void modeling by Wong, Uland, Morris, Aaron, Lea, Colin, Lee, James, Whittaker, Chuck, Garney, Ben, Whittaker, Red

“…This paper compares a broad cross-section of range sensing technologies for underground void modeling. In this family of applications, a tunnel environment is…”
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High Performance Computing for Autonomous Planetary Exploration by Sharif, Khaled, Ford, Jordan, Whittaker, Red, Wong, Uland

“…Modern parallel computers could power the perception and compression algorithms small planetary rovers require to navigate long distances, construct detailed…”
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Lunar Pit Exploration and Mapping via Autonomous Micro-Rover by Ford, Jordan, Sharif, Khaled, Jones, Heather, Whittaker, William

“…Lunar pits are windows to great unknowns beneath the surface of the Moon. The steep pit walls expose a vertical cross-section of stratified lunar crust, a…”
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Efficient multi-sensor exploration using dependent observations and conditional mutual information by Tabib, Wennie, Whittaker, Red, Michael, Nathan

“…In search and rescue scenarios, it is important to find survivors and map their locations quickly and efficiently. This paper presents a multimodal exploration…”
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Active Range and Bearing-based Radiation Source Localization by Lee, Michael S., Shy, Daniel, Whittaker, William Red, Michael, Nathan

“…3D radiation source localization is a common task across applications such as decommissioning, disaster response, and security, but traditional count-based…”
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3-D Volumetric Gamma-ray Imaging and Source Localization with a Mobile Robot by Lee, Michael S, Hanczor, Matthew, Chu, Jiyang, He, Zhong, Michael, Nathan, Whittaker, Red

“…Radiation detection has largely been a manual inspection process with point sensors such as Geiger-Muller counters and scintillation spectrometers to date…”
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CraterGrader: Autonomous Robotic Terrain Manipulation for Lunar Site Preparation and Earthmoving by Lee, Ryan, Younes, Benjamin, Pletta, Alexander, Harrington, John, Wong, Russell Q, Whittaker, William "Red"

“…Establishing lunar infrastructure is paramount to long-term habitation on the Moon. To meet the demand for future lunar infrastructure development, we present…”
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Position estimation by registration to planetary terrain by Sheshadri, A., Peterson, K. M., Jones, H. L., Whittaker, William L.

“…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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Paradigms for successful technology development by Monternerlo, M., Whittaker, R., Moore, C., Varsi, G., Valinia, A., Johnston, G.

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Testing driver skill for high-speed autonomous vehicles by Urmson, C., Whittaker, W., Harbaugh, S., Clark, M., Koon, P.

“…The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a 212-kilometer race through the Mojave Desert, showcased the state of the art in high-speed, autonomous navigation of trails…”
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Mars Sample Return a robust mission approach for "getting the right sample" by Evanyo, J.A., Delamere, A., Gulick, D., Horsley, B., Fischer, C., Mann, D., Miller, K., Mitchell, S., Svitek, T., Padavano, J., Whittaker, R., Uphoff, C., Helleckson, B., Loucks, M., Boynton, J., Mungas, G.

“…The Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission plans to collect a set of soil samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth for detailed analysis. The NASA…”
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Mapping planetary caves with an autonomous, heterogeneous robot team by Husain, Ammar, Jones, Heather, Kannan, Balajee, Wong, Uland, Pimentel, Tiago, Tang, Sarah, Daftry, Shreyansh, Huber, Steven, Whittaker, William L.

“…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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