FIDO rover field trials as rehearsal for the NASA 2003 Mars exploration rovers mission

Robotics, Automation, Control and Manufacturing: Trends, Principles and Applications - Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC 2002, ISORA 2002, ISIAC 2002 and ISOMA 2002

Volumn 14, Issue , 2002, Pages 320-327

  Tunstel, Edward ^a   Huntsberger, Terry ^a   Aghazarian, Hrand ^a   Backes, Paul ^a   Baumgartner, Eric ^a   Cheng, Yang ^a   Garrett, Michael ^a   Kennedy, Brett ^a   Leger, Chris ^a   Magnone, Lee ^a   Norris, Jeffrey ^a   Powell, Mark ^a   Trebi Ollennu, Ashitey ^a   Schenker, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robot; FIDO; Field trials; Mars exploration; Planetary rover; Space mission simulation; Space robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; FIDO; FIELD TRIAL; MARS EXPLORATION; PLANETARY ROVERS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE ROBOTICS;

DESIGN; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MANUFACTURE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NASA; NAVIGATION; PLANETARY LANDERS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 27744537922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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