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Meteorites are the only significant source of material from other planets and asteroids, and therefore are of immense scientific value. Antarctica’s frozen and pristine environment has proven to be the best place on earth to harvest meteorite specimens. The lack of melting and surface erosion keep m...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.91.2498 2023-05-15T13:57:28+02:00 Downloaded from Dimitrios S. Apostolopoulos Michael D. Wagner Benjamin N. Shamah Liam Pedersen Kimberly Shillcutt William L William L. Whittaker The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.91.2498 http://ijr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/11/1015.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.91.2498 http://ijr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/11/1015.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://ijr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/11/1015.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T19:47:53Z Meteorites are the only significant source of material from other planets and asteroids, and therefore are of immense scientific value. Antarctica’s frozen and pristine environment has proven to be the best place on earth to harvest meteorite specimens. The lack of melting and surface erosion keep meteorite falls visible on the ice surface in pristine condition for thousands of years. In this article, we describe the robotic technologies and field demonstration that enabled the first discovery of Antarctic meteorites by a robot. Using a novel autonomous control architecture, specialized science sensing, combined manipulation and visual servoing, and Bayesian classification, the Nomad robot found and classified five indigenous meteorites during an expedition to the remote site of Elephant Moraine in January 2000. This article first overviews Nomad’s mechatronic systems and details the control architecture that governs the robot’s Text Antarc* Antarctic Unknown Antarctic Elephant Moraine ENVELOPE(157.233,157.233,-76.300,-76.300) |
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Meteorites are the only significant source of material from other planets and asteroids, and therefore are of immense scientific value. Antarctica’s frozen and pristine environment has proven to be the best place on earth to harvest meteorite specimens. The lack of melting and surface erosion keep meteorite falls visible on the ice surface in pristine condition for thousands of years. In this article, we describe the robotic technologies and field demonstration that enabled the first discovery of Antarctic meteorites by a robot. Using a novel autonomous control architecture, specialized science sensing, combined manipulation and visual servoing, and Bayesian classification, the Nomad robot found and classified five indigenous meteorites during an expedition to the remote site of Elephant Moraine in January 2000. This article first overviews Nomad’s mechatronic systems and details the control architecture that governs the robot’s |
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