The mars exploration rover surface mobility flight software: Driving ambition

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Biesiadecki, Jeffrey J ^a   Maimone, Mark W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Egomotion; Fault protection; Flight software; Mars rover; MER; Robot mobility; Robotics; Visual odometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC MOTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SPACECRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; EGOMOTION; FAULT PROTECTION; FLIGHT SOFTWARE; MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS (MER); ROVERS; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34047168863     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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