Rovers are a vital component of NASA's strategy for manned and unmanned exploration of space. For the past five years, the Intelligent Mechanisms Group at the NASA Ames Research Center has conducted a vigorous program of field testing of rovers from both technology and science team productivity perspective. In this talk, I will give an overview of the the last two years of the test program, focusing on tests conducted in the Painted Desert of Arizona, the Atacama desert in Chile, and on IMG participation in the Mars Pathfinder mission. An overview of autonomy, manipulation, and user interface technologies developed in response to these missions will be presented, and lesson's learned in these missions and their impact on future flight missions will be presented. I will close with some perspectives on how the testing program has affected current rover systems.


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    Title :

    Testing Planetary Rovers: Technologies, Perspectives, and Lessons Learned


    Contributors:
    Thomas, Hans (author) / Lau, Sonie (author)

    Conference:

    IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation ; 1998 ; Leuven, Belgium


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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