AEGIS automated science targeting for the MER Opportunity rover

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Estlin, Tara A ^a   Bornstein, Benjamin J ^a   Gaines, Daniel M ^a   Anderson, Robert C ^a   Thompson, David R ^a   Burl, Michael ^a   Castaño, Rebecca ^a   Judd, Michele ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous science; Data analysis; Spacecraft autonomy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION; AUTONOMOUS EXPLORATION; AUTONOMOUS SCIENCE; CHEMCAM; COMMAND SEQUENCES; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSIONS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MINI-TES; ONBOARD DATA ANALYSIS; PANORAMIC CAMERAS; PLANETARY ROVERS; SOFTWARE USE; SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY; TARGETING CAPABILITY;

DATA REDUCTION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; PLANETARY LANDERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84863631241     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2168752.2168764     Document Type: Review

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