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Lunar Rover Navigation This project is no longer active. Head: William Red L. Whittaker Contact: Reid Simmons (reids@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

Capabilities are needed to enable driving the rover over varied terrain and to safeguard its operation. Time-delayed teleoperation is laborious and upredictable for remote operators. A better mode of operation is supervised teleoperation, or even autonomous operation, in which the rover itself is responsible for making many of the decisions necessary to maintain progress and safety. To date, Carnegie Mellon researchers have concentrated on semi-autonomous and autonomous operation, and we have already demonstrated that our navigation system can drive the rover over more than a kilometer of outdoor, natural terrain.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	William Red L. Whittaker	University Professor	red@ri.cmu.edu

Publications

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

• Laser Ranger based Hazard Detection
  L. Henriksen
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [758 KB] copyrighted

• Stereo Driving and Position Estimation for Autonomous Planetary Rovers
  E. Krotkov, M. Hebert, M. Buffa, F. Cozman, and L. Robert
  IARP Workshop on Robotics in Space, July, 1994. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [324 KB] copyrighted