Increased mars rover autonomy using AI planning, scheduling and execution

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4911-4918

  Estlin, Tara ^a   Gaines, Daniel ^a   Chouinard, Caroline ^a   Castano, Rebecca ^a   Borastein, Benjamin ^a   Judd, Michele ^a   Nesnas, Issa ^a   Anderson, Robert ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTOMATED GENERATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 34848839043     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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