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Mars Pathfinder Microrover

Mars Pathfinder Microrover When the Mars Pathfinder (MPF) spacecraft lands on Mars, the Microrover Flight Experiment (MFEX) will be deployed and perform its mission to conduct technology experiments verifying the engineering design, to deploy an alpha proton x-ray spectrometer (APXS) to measure elemental properties of rocks and soil, and to image the MPF lander. In accomplishing this mission the MFEX rover must determine a safe path to goal locations traversing over a poorly known Martian surface. The rover does this mission with a capable mobile platform executing on-board autonomous functions of navigation and hazard avoidance. In this paper we describe the rover, its operational environment and the implementation of the on-board autonomous functions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Autonomous Robots Springer Journals

Mars Pathfinder Microrover

Autonomous Robots , Volume 2 (4) – Nov 13, 2004

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Springer Journals
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Subject
Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
ISSN
0929-5593
eISSN
1573-7527
DOI
10.1007/BF00710795
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Abstract

When the Mars Pathfinder (MPF) spacecraft lands on Mars, the Microrover Flight Experiment (MFEX) will be deployed and perform its mission to conduct technology experiments verifying the engineering design, to deploy an alpha proton x-ray spectrometer (APXS) to measure elemental properties of rocks and soil, and to image the MPF lander. In accomplishing this mission the MFEX rover must determine a safe path to goal locations traversing over a poorly known Martian surface. The rover does this mission with a capable mobile platform executing on-board autonomous functions of navigation and hazard avoidance. In this paper we describe the rover, its operational environment and the implementation of the on-board autonomous functions.

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Autonomous RobotsSpringer Journals

Published: Nov 13, 2004

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