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Science Autonomy Head: David Wettergreen Contact: David Wettergreen (dsw@ri.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC

This page last updated - March 2006.

Project Description

The Science Autonomy project will enable planetary rovers to reason about the science investigation that they are undertaking, by interpreting science observations in real-time and making decisions the improve the quality and quantity of their scientific data return. Field experiments are being conducted in conjunction with the Life in the Atacama project.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Dominic Jonak	Senior Research Programmer	dom@ri.cmu.edu
	Reid Simmons	Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair	reids@cs.cmu.edu
	David R Thompson	PhD Student, RI	drt@andrew.cmu.edu
	Michael D Wagner	NREC Commercialization Specialist	mwagner@cmu.edu
	David Wettergreen	Assoc. Research Professor	dsw@ri.cmu.edu

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]

• 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

• Intelligent Maps for Autonomous Kilometer-Scale Science Survey
  D.R. Thompson and D. Wettergreen
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), February, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [758 KB] copyrighted

• Multi-scale Features for Detection and Segmentation of Rocks in Mars Images
  H. Dunlop, D.R. Thompson, and D. Wettergreen
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1253 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

• Spatial Point Process Models for the Clustering Behavior of Northern Plains Boulders
  D.R. Thompson and D. Wettergreen
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1042 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Detection of Novel Biologic and Geologic Features in Atacama Desert Rover Imagery
  D.R. Thompson, T. Smith, and D. Wettergreen
  Proc. of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [57 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Rover Detection and Response Applied to the Search for Life Via Chlorophyll Fluorescence in the Atacama Desert
  T. Smith, D.R. Thompson, S. Weinstein, and D. Wettergreen
  Proc. of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [388 KB] copyrighted

• Data Mining During Rover Traverse: From Images to Geologic Signatures
  D.R. Thompson, T. Smith, and D. Wettergreen
  8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, September, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2740 KB] copyrighted

• Multiple-Object Detection in Natural Scenes with Multiple-View Expectation Maximization Clustering
  D.R. Thompson and D. Wettergreen
  International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '05), August, 2005, pp. 448 - 453. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [8621 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Detection and Classification of Geological Features of Interest
  D.R. Thompson, S. Niekum, T. Smith, and D. Wettergreen
  IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Big Sky Montana, 2005, March, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1355 KB] copyrighted