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: Pedersen, Liam, Wettergreen, David, Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios, McKay, Chris, DiGoia, Matthew, Jonak, Dominic, Heys, Stuart, Teza, James, Wagner, Michael
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Carnegie Mellon University 2005
Subjects:
80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
FOS Computer and information sciences
Antarc*
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1184/r1/6560741
https://kilthub.cmu.edu/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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