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LORAX: Life on Ice, Robotic Antarctic Explorer (LORAX)
Heads: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos and 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

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - March 2006.

The Life on Ice: Robotic Antarctic Explorer (LORAX) is researching and field testing the necessary technologies to enable an autonomous rover to conduct survey traverses of the Antarctic ice sheet. Assess autonomous navigation capability on snow/ice Specifically the rover will circumnavigate geologic features that protrude through the ice (nunataks) and sample and measure the abundance of microorganisms surviving in the top 10cm of ice to understand how microbes migrate in Antarctica.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Dimitrios Apostolopoulos - Senior Systems Scientist <da1v@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Dominic Jonak - Senior Research Programmer <dom@ri.cmu.edu>
• Mark Sibenac - NREC Commercialization Specialist <sib_at_ri.cmu.edu>
• James Teza - Senior Research Engineer <jpt@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Michael D Wagner - NREC Commercialization Specialist <mwagner@cmu.edu>
• [Home] David Wettergreen - Assoc. Research Professor <dsw@ri.cmu.edu>

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

• Rover Design for Polar Astrobiological Exploration
  L. Pedersen, D. Wettergreen, D. Apostolopoulos, C. McKay, M.E. DiGioia, D. Jonak, S. Heys, J. Teza, and M.D. Wagner
  8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, September, 2005. [Abstract]
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