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Francisco Calderon
Visiting Engineer

No longer a member of RI.

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• Life in the Atacama - Robotic field investigation will bring new scientific understanding of the Atacama as a habitat for life with distinct analogies to Mars.
• Science Autonomy - The Science Autonomy project seeks to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of robotic planetary investigations by enabling automatic detection of relevant science features, classification of feature properties, and exploration planning that responds on-the-fly.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Autonomous Rover Reflectance Spectroscopy with Dozens of Targets
  F. Calderon, D.R. Thompson, and D. Wettergreen
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), February, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [513 KB] copyrighted

• Analysis of High-Efficiency Solar Cells in Mobile Robot Applications
  F. Calderon, R.A. Luders, D. Wettergreen, J. Teza, and A. Guesalaga
  Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 3, August, 2007, pp. 343-346. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [297 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Reflectance Spectroscopy by a Mobile Robot for Mineralogical Characterization
  F. Calderon
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [13058 KB] copyrighted

• Second Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile
  D. Wettergreen, N. Cabrol, V. Baskaran, F. Calderon, S. Heys, D. Jonak, R.A. Luders, D. Pane, T. Smith, J. Teza, P. Tompkins, D. Villa, C. Williams, and M.D. Wagner
  8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, September, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Robotic Technologies for Surveying Habitats and Seeking Evidence of Life: Results from the 2004 Field Experiments of the “Life in the Atacama” Project
  D. Wettergreen, N. Cabrol, W.L. Whittaker, G.C. Diaz, F. Calderon, S. Heys, D. Jonak, R.A. Luders, J. Moersch, D. Pane, M. Smith, K. Stubbs, J. Teza, P. Tompkins, D. Villa, C. Williams, M.D. Wagner, A. Waggoner, S. Weinstein, and M. Wyatt
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]

• Searching for Life with Rovers: Exploration Methods and Science Results from the 2004 Field Campaign of the "Life in the Atacama" Project and Applications to Future Mars Missions
  N.A. Cabrol, D. Wettergreen, W.L. Whittaker, E.A. Grin, J. Moersch, G.C. Diaz, C. Cockell, P. Coppin, J.M. Dohm, G. Fisher, A.N. Hock, L. Marinangeli, E. Minkley, G.G. Ori, J. Piatek, A. Waggoner, K. Warren-Rhodes, S. Weinstein, M. Wyatt, F. Calderon, S. Heys, D. Jonak, R.A. Luders, D. Pane, T. Smith, K. Stubbs, J. Teza, P. Tompkins, D. Villa, C. Williams, M.D. Wagner, G. Thomas, and J. Glasgow
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]
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