Field Testing Robotic Follow-up for Exploration Field Work - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Field Testing Robotic Follow-up for Exploration Field Work

Matthew Deans, Maria Bualat, Terrence W. Fong, Essam Heggy, Mark Helper, Kip Hodges, and Pascal Lee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March, 2011

Abstract

On July 16 2010 through August 5 2010, we conducted a field test and mission simulation of a robotic follow-up system with a robot at Haughton Crater, Nunavut, Canada, and a mission control cener at NASA Ames. During the test, K10 Black was used to conduct high priority field observations identified by human crews during simulated EVA’s conducted at the same field site in 2009. The goal of the test was to improve our understanding of how robotic followup can help improve the overall productivity of human and robotic partnerships, and how robots might best be used to complement human crews.

BibTeX

@conference{Deans-2011-7233,
author = {Matthew Deans and Maria Bualat and Terrence W. Fong and Essam Heggy and Mark Helper and Kip Hodges and Pascal Lee},
title = {Field Testing Robotic Follow-up for Exploration Field Work},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference},
year = {2011},
month = {March},
}