Autonomous Rock Tracking and Acquisition from a Mars Rover

• Main Authors: Das, Hari, Nesnas, Issa A., Maimone, Mark W.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Long Rock
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20000054884

Future Mars exploration missions will perform two types of experiments: science instrument placement for close-up measurement, and sample acquisition for return to Earth. In this paper we describe algorithms we developed for these tasks, and demonstrate them in field experiments using a self-contain...