Bayes Networks on Ice: Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites

A Bayes network based classifier for distinguishing terrestrial rocks from meteorites is implemented onboard the Nomad robot. Equipped with a camera, spectrometer and eddy current sensor, this robot searched the ice sheets of Antarctica and autonomously made the first robotic identification of a met...

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Main Authors: Liam Pedersen, Dimi Apostolopoulos, Red Whittaker
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2000
Subjects:
Antarctic
Elephant Moraine
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.73.433
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS/00papers-pub-on-web/PedersenApostolopoulosWhittaker.pdf
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Summary:A Bayes network based classifier for distinguishing terrestrial rocks from meteorites is implemented onboard the Nomad robot. Equipped with a camera, spectrometer and eddy current sensor, this robot searched the ice sheets of Antarctica and autonomously made the first robotic identification of a meteorite, in January 2000 at the Elephant Moraine. This paper discusses rock classification from a robotic platform, and describes the system onboard Nomad. 1

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