MARTE: Technology development and lessons learned from a Mars drilling mission simulation

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 877-905

  Cannon, Howard N ^a   Stocker, Carol R ^a   Dunagan, Stephen E ^a   Davis, Kiel ^b   Gómez Elvira, Javier ^c   Glass, Brian J ^a   Lemke, Lawrence G ^a   Miller, David ^d   Bonaccorsi, Rosalba ^a   Branson, Mark ^a   Christa, Scott ^a   Rodríguez Manfredi, José Antonio ^c   Mumm, Erik ^b   Paulsen, Gale ^b   Roman, Matt ^c   Winterholler, Alois ^c   Zavaleta, Jhony R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HONEYBEE ROBOTICS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^d University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRILLING; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTIC DRILLING MISSION; SIMULATED LANDER PLATFORM;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148951808     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20224     Document Type: Article

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