Robotic Follow-up for Human Exploration

We are studying how “robotic follow-up ” can improve future planetary exploration. Robotic follow-up, which we define as augmenting human field work with subsequent robot activity, is a field exploration technique designed to increase human productivity and science return. To better understand the b...

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Main Authors: Terrence Fong, Maria Bualat, Matthew C. Deans, Byron Adams, Mark Allan, Martha Altobelli, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Tamar Cohen, Lorenzo Flückiger, Joshua Garber, Elizabeth Palmer, Essam Heggy, Mark Helper, Kip V. Hodges, Pascal Lee, Susan Y. Lee, David Lees, Jason Lum, Mike Lundy, Trey Smith, Vinh To, Hans Utz, Dawn Wheeler, Kelsey Young
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Canada
Devon Island
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.175.2025
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Etrey/papers/fong10_robotic_followup.pdf
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Summary:We are studying how “robotic follow-up ” can improve future planetary exploration. Robotic follow-up, which we define as augmenting human field work with subsequent robot activity, is a field exploration technique designed to increase human productivity and science return. To better understand the benefits, requirements, limitations and risks associated with this technique, we are conducting analog field tests with human and robot teams at the Haughton Crater impact structure on Devon Island, Canada. In this paper, we discuss the motivation for robotic follow-up, describe the scientific context and system design for our work, and present results and lessons learned from field testing. I.

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