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Eric Rollins
Senior Research Engineer

No longer a member of RI.

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• Lunar Rover Initiative - first interactive space exploration event

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

• Field Validation of Nomad's Robotic Locomotion
  B. Shamah, D. Apostolopoulos, E. Rollins, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society of Photo-Optical Engineering, Vol. 3525, November, 1998, pp. 214-222. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [561 KB], ps.gz [2275 KB] copyrighted

• A Photo-Realistic 3-D Mapping System for Extreme Nuclear Environments: Chernobyl
  M. Maimone, L. Matthies, J. Osborn, E. Rollins, J. Teza, and S. Thayer
  Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '98), Vol. 3, October, 1998, pp. 1521 - 1527. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [588 KB], ps.gz [1022 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

• Nomad: A Demonstration of the Transforming Chassis
  E. Rollins, J. Luntz, A. Foessel, B. Shamah, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the 1998 Intelligent Components for Vehicles, March, 1998.
  Download: pdf [283 KB], ps.gz [461 KB] copyrighted

• 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

• A Prototype Locomotion Concept for a Lunar Robotic Explorer
  Y. Fuke, D. Apostolopoulos, E. Rollins, J. Silberman, and W.L. Whittaker
  1995 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, September, 1995, pp. 382 - 387. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [695 KB] copyrighted

• The Virtual Vehicle - A Materials Handling System Using Highly Distributed Coordination Control
  J. Luntz, E. Rollins, and W. Messner
  1995 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, September, 1995, pp. 742 - 747. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [725 KB] copyrighted

• Design of a Day / Night Lunar Rover
  P. Berkelman, M. Chen, J. Easudes, J. Hancock, M.C. Martin, A. Mor, E. Rollins, A. Sharf, J. Silberman, T. Warren, and D. Bapna
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-95-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1995. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1108 KB], ps.gz [1843 KB] copyrighted