Rover Design for Polar Astrobiological Exploration

LORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the distribution of microbes in Antarctica’s ice sheets. Robotic platform requirements include navigational autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to operate unattended for a month without introducing contamination that would affect the results. This...

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Main Authors: Liam Pedersen, David Wettergreen, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Chris McKay, Matthew DiGoia, Dominic Jonak, Stuart Heys, James Teza, Michael Wagner
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
Robotics
Antarc*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1184/r1/6560741.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/Rover_Design_for_Polar_Astrobiological_Exploration/6560741
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Summary:LORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the distribution of microbes in Antarctica’s ice sheets. Robotic platform requirements include navigational autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to operate unattended for a month without introducing contamination that would affect the results. This paper details the LORAX investigation, the navigational autonomy development and testing, and an analysis of wind and solar power to accomplish this mission.

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