Enabling continuous planetary rover navigation through FPGA stereo and visual odometry

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Howard, Thomas M ^a   Morfopoulos, Arin ^a   Morrison, Jack ^a   Kuwata, Yoshiaki ^a   Villalpando, Carlos ^a   Matthies, Larry ^a   McHenry, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CO-PROCESSORS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONTINUOUS STEERING; CONVERTING PROCESS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES; FEATURE DETECTOR; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MISSIONS; MOBILITY SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION ARCHITECTURES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PLANETARY ROVERS; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; POSE ESTIMATION; RADIATION HARDNESS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SUM OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRAVERSABILITY; TRAVERSE SPEED; VISUAL ODOMETRY; WHEEL SLIPS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION;

PLANETARY LANDERS;

EID: 84861172230     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2012.6187041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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