A geologist characterizing a field site typically wanders from one interesting geologic feature to another. Performing geology remotely with a mobile robot, we have observed the same behavior: geologists see a visually-interesting feature and wish to approach it for closer inspection. To date, navigating a mobile robot to a visually-interesting feature has been accomplished by driving to a location close to the feature. This introduces two problems: assigning a location to the feature and navigating the rover to that location. In practice, solutions to both of these problems are susceptable to positional error. Fundamentally, we can see where we want the robot to go, but it is difficult to precisely quantify where either the target or the robot are located. The development of vision-based control of robot manipulators suggests an alternative approach for mobile robot explorers. We have developed a vision-based control system that enables the Marsokhod rover to drive to within sampling distance of visually-designated rock or natural feature. We will describe this system and our initial results using it during a field experiment in the Painted Desert of Arizona.


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    Title :

    Initial Results from Vision-based Control of the Marsokhod Rover


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    Conference:

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ; 1997 ; Grenoble, France


    Publication date :

    1997-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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