Field testing of a rover guidance, navigation, and control architecture to support a ground-ice prospecting mission to Mars

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 472-488

  Barfoot, Timothy ^a   Furgale, Paul ^a   Stenning, Braden ^a   Carle, Patrick ^a   Thomson, Laura ^b   Osinski, Gordon ^b   Daly, Michael ^c   Ghafoor, Nadeem ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground ice prospecting; Guidance, navigation, and control; Mars; Planetary rover

Indexed keywords

FIELD CAMPAIGN; FIELD ROBOT; FIELD TESTING; GROUND-ICE PROSPECTING; GUIDANCE , NAVIGATION , AND CONTROLS; GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, AND CONTROL; HIGH ARCTIC; MARS; PLANETARY ROVERS;

ICE CONTROL; LANDFORMS; NAVIGATION; PLANETARY LANDERS; SPACE SHUTTLES;

ICE;

EID: 79955540981     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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