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Stewart Moorehead
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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• Autonomous Rover Technologies - Pursuing breakthroughs and insights into fundamental aspects of robot perception, navigation, position estimation, and integrated exploratory science from a robot.
• Mars Autonomy - Long-distance marsrover navigation with minimal human intervention.
• Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Developing robots to search for meteorites in Antarctica, as an analog of a planetary exploration robot.
• Sun Synchronous Navigation - We are developing the algorithms, technologies, and experiments that will fulfill the vision of sun-synchronous circumnavigation.

• Steering and Control of a Passively Articulated Robot
  B. Shamah, M.D. Wagner, S. Moorehead, J. Teza, D. Wettergreen, and W.L. Whittaker
  SPIE, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems IV, Vol. 4571, October, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [186 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Surface Exploration for Mobile Robots
  S. Moorehead
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-30, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2839 KB], ps.gz [5736 KB] copyrighted

• A Multiple Information Source Planner for Autonomous Planetary Exploration
  S. Moorehead, R. Simmons, and W.L. Whittaker
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), June, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [342 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Exploration Using Multiple Sources of Information
  S. Moorehead, R. Simmons, and W.L. Whittaker
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [210 KB] copyrighted

• Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Navigation in Polar Terrains
  N. Vandapel, R. Chatila, S. Moorehead, S. Lacroix, D. Apostolopoulos, and W.L. Whittaker
  International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2000. [Abstract]

• Autonomous Navigation Field Results of a Planetary Analog Robot in Antarctica
  S. Moorehead, R. Simmons, D. Apostolopoulos, and W.L. Whittaker
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, June, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [115 KB] copyrighted

• Preliminary Results on the use of Stereo, Color Cameras and Laser Sensors in Antarctica
  N. Vandapel, S. Moorehead, W.L. Whittaker, R. Chatila, and R. Murrieta-Cid
  International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, March, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [743 KB], ps.gz [1586 KB] copyrighted

• Search for Meteorites at Martin Hills and Pirrit Hills, Antarctica
  P. Lee, W.A. Cassidy, D. Apostolopoulos, D. Bassi, L. Bravo, H. Cifuentes, M. Deans, A. Foessel, S. Moorehead, M. Parris, C. Puebla, L. Pedersen, M. Sibenac, F. Valdés, N. Vandapel, and W.L. Whittaker
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXX, 1999.
  Download: pdf [202 KB] copyrighted

• A Concept for Robotic Lunar South Pole Exploration
  M. Deans, S. Moorehead, B. Shamah, K. Shillcutt, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space (Space '98), April, 1998, pp. 333-339.
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• Icebreaker: A Lunar South Pole Exploring Robot
  M. Deans, G. Fries, K. Lay, B. Shamah, A. Foessel, D. LaBelle, S. Moorehead, and K. Shillcutt
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1997. [Abstract]
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