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Abstract

This report describes progress in research on an autonomous robot for planetary exploration performed during 1991 at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. The report summarizes the achievements during calendar year 1991, and lists personnel and publications. In addition, it includes several papers resulting from the research.

Research in 1991 focused on understanding the unique capabilities of the Ambler mechanism and on autonomous walking in rough, natural terrain. We also designed a sample acquisition system, and began to configure a successor to the Ambler.

Notes

Sponsor: NASA

Grant ID: NAGW-1175

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center and Field Robotics Center

Associated Project(s): Ambler

Number of pages: 52

Text Reference

Eric Krotkov, Reid Simmons, and William (Red) L. Whittaker, "1991 Year End Report Autonomous Planetary Rover," tech. report CMU-RI-TR-92-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1992

BibTeX Reference

@techreport{Krotkov_1992_279,
   author = "Eric Krotkov and Reid Simmons and William (Red) L. Whittaker",
   title = "1991 Year End Report Autonomous Planetary Rover",
   booktitle = "",
   institution = "Robotics Institute",
   month = "February",
   year = "1992",
   number= "CMU-RI-TR-92-02",
   address= "Pittsburgh, PA",
}

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