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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.

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LORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the distribution of microbes in Antarctica?s ice sheets. Robotic platform requirements include navigational autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to operate unattended for a month without introducing contamination that would affect the results. This paper details the LORAX investigation, the navigational autonomy development and testing, and an analysis of wind and solar power to accomplish this mission.

Sponsor: NASA

Associated center: FRC
Associated project: LORAX: Life on Ice, Robotic Antarctic Explorer

Number of pages: 8

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

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   author = "Liam Pedersen and David Wettergreen and Dimitrios Apostolopoulos and Chris McKay and Matthew E DiGioia and Dominic Jonak and Stuart Heys and James Teza and Michael D Wagner",
   title = "Rover Design for Polar Astrobiological Exploration",
   booktitle = "8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space",
   month = "September",
   year = "2005"
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