Autonomous Robotic Meteorite Identification in Antarctica

This paper describes the development and implementation of a Bayes network based system for distinguishing terrestrial rocks from meteorites from onboard the mobile robotic rover Nomad. Equipped with a color camera and spectrometer, Nomad autonomously made the first robotic identification of a meteo...

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Main Authors: Liam Pedersen Michael, Michael Wagner, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, William “red Whittaker
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
Subjects:
Elephant Moraine
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.4955
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/pedersen_liam_2001_1/pedersen_liam_2001_1.pdf
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Summary:This paper describes the development and implementation of a Bayes network based system for distinguishing terrestrial rocks from meteorites from onboard the mobile robotic rover Nomad. Equipped with a color camera and spectrometer, Nomad autonomously made the first robotic identification of a meteorite, in January 2000 at the Elephant Moraine, Antarctica. This paper discusses rock classification from a robotic platform and the challenges of autonomously obtaining good sensor data in the field, while focusing on Nomad implementation.

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