Global path planning on board the mars exploration rovers

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Carsten, Joseph ^a   Rankin, Arturo ^a   Ferguson, Dave ^b   Stentz, Anthony ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Field D; Flight software; Mars rover; MER; Path planning; Robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOTION PLANNING; NASA; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; FLIGHT SOFTWARE; ISOLATED HAZARDS; MARS ROVER;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES;

EID: 34548748677     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.352683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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