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Deepak Bapna
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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Research Interests: Mobile Robots, Dynamics, Modeling, Analysis, Control, RF Communication, Automation, Educational Robotics

mobile robots

• Atacama Desert Trek - Robotic traversal of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile
• Lunar Rover Initiative - first interactive space exploration event

• Developing Nomad for Robotic Exploration of the Atacama Desert
  D. Wettergreen, D. Bapna, M. Maimone, and H. Thomas
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, February, 1999, pp. 127-148.
  Download: pdf [14761 KB] copyrighted

• Solid-State Six Degree of Freedom, Motion Sensor for Field Robotic Applications
  A.M. Madni, D. Bapna, P. Levin, and E. Krotkov
  Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '98), Vol. 3, October, 1998, pp. 1389 - 1398. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [908 KB] copyrighted

• The Atacama Desert Trek: Outcomes
  D. Bapna, E. Rollins, J. Murphy, M. Maimone, W.L. Whittaker, and D. Wettergreen
  Proceedings of ICRA 1998, Vol. 1, May, 1998, pp. 597 - 604. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [348 KB] copyrighted

• Payload Pointing from Mobile Robots
  D. Bapna
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1998. [Abstract]
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• Antenna Pointing for High Bandwidth Communications from Mobile Robots
  D. Bapna, E. Rollins, A. Foessel, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of ICRA 1998, Vol. 4, 1998, pp. 3468 - 3473. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [167 KB], ps.gz [361 KB] copyrighted

• An Innovative High Bandwidth Communication System for Mobile Robots
  D. Bapna, J. Teza, E. Rollins, and W.L. Whittaker
  27th International Conference on Environmental Systems, July, 1997.

• Atacama Desert Trek: A Planetary Analog Field Experiment
  W.L. Whittaker, D. Bapna, M. Maimone, and E. Rollins
  i-SAIRAS'97, July, 1997.
  Download: pdf [324 KB], ps.gz [428 KB] copyrighted

• Earth-Moon Communication from a Moving Lunar Rover
  D. Bapna, M.C. Martin, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Instrumentation Symposium, May, 1996, pp. 613-622.
  Download: pdf [30 KB], ps.gz [31 KB] copyrighted

• Technology and Demonstrations for a Lunar Rover Expedition
  L. Katragadda, J. Murphy, D. Apostolopoulos, D. Bapna, and W.L. Whittaker
  1996 SAE International Conference on Environmental Systems, 1996.

• An Edutainment Based Lunar Mission and Related Spectrum Issues
  D. Bapna and W.L. Whittaker
  Space Frequency Coordination Group Meeting, December, 1995.
  Download: pdf [344 KB], ps.gz [674 KB] copyrighted