Lightweight rovers for Mars science exploration and sample return

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3208, Issue , 1997, Pages 24-36

  Schenker, P S ^a   Sword, L F ^a   Ganino, A J ^a   Bickler, Donald B ^a   Hickey, G S ^a   Brown, D K ^a   Baumgartner, E T ^a   Matthies, L H ^a   Wilcox, B H ^a   Balch, T ^a   Aghazarian, H ^a   Garrett, M S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D sensing; Mars sample return; Mobile robots; Planetary science; Robotic sampling

Indexed keywords

3D SENSING; A SPOTS; ALUMINUM WHEELS; COMPOSITE JOINTS; CONVENTIONAL DESIGNS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; EARTH RETURNS; ENVIRONMENTAL ROBUSTNESSES; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; GROUND CLEARANCES; HAZARD DETECTIONS; HYBRID COMPOSITES; INTERNAL TEMPERATURES; MARS EXPLORATIONS; MARS PATHFINDERS; MARS SAMPLE RETURN; MARS SAMPLE RETURNS; MARS SCIENCES; MECHANICAL FEATURES; MOBILITY SYSTEMS; PLANETARY SCIENCE; PUSHBROOM; ROBOTIC SAMPLING; RUNNING GEARS; SAMPLE RETURNS; SCIENCE MISSIONS; TERRAIN MAPPINGS; TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

ALUMINA; AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CARGO HANDLING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; METRIC SYSTEM; MOBILE ROBOTS; PLANT LAYOUT; ROBOTICS; STRUTS; TRUCKS; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 57649092682     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.290300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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