Publications




Spectral Unmixing and Mapping of Coral Reef Benthic Cover
Rohan Zeng, Eric J. Hochberg, Alberto Candela, and David S. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July, 2024
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Neural Radiance Fields for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain
Margaret Hansen, Caleb Adams, Terrence Fong, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, May, 2024
Range-based GP Maps: Local Surface Mapping for Mobile Robots using Gaussian Process Regression in Range Space
Margaret Hansen and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 7241-7248, December, 2023
Multi-Objective Ergodic Search for Dynamic Information Maps
Ananya Rao, Abigail Breitfeld, Alberto Candela, Benjamin Jensen, David Wettergreen, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2023
Spectral Unmixing and Mapping of Coral Reef Benthic Cover with Deep Learning
Rohan Zeng, Eric J. Hochberg, Alberto Candela, and David S. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (WHISPERS) Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, November, 2022
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mapping with Semantic and Traversability Metrics for Forest Fire Mitigation
David Russell, Tito Arevalo, Chinmay Garg, Winnie Kuang, Francisco Yandun, David Wettergreen, and George Kantor
Workshop Paper, ICRA 2022 Innovation in Forestry Robotics: Research and Industry Adoption, May, 2022
Stereo Perception in the Dark using Uncalibrated Line Laser
Srinivasan Vijayarangan and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September, 2021
Using Remote Sensing and in situ Measurements for Efficient Mapping and Optimal Sampling of Coral Reefs
Alberto Candela, Kevin Edelson, Michelle M. Gierach, David R. Thompson, Gail Woodward, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Frontiers in Marine Science, September, 2021
Mars Rover Exploration Combining Remote and In Situ Measurements for Wide-Area Mapping
Alberto Candela, Kevin Edelson, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '20), October, 2020
Terrain Mapping and Pose Estimation for Polar Shadowed Regions of the Moon
Haidar Jamal, Vaibhav Gupta, Neil Khera, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, David S. Wettergreen, and William L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '20), October, 2020
Verification of Stereo Camera Calibration using Laser Stripers for a Lunar Micro-Rover
Srinivasan Vijayarangan and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '20), October, 2020
Quantifying uncertainty for remote spectroscopy of surface composition
David R. Thompson, Amy Braverman, Philip G. Brodrick, Alberto Candela, Nimrod Carmon, Roger N. Clark, David Connelly, Robert O. Green, Raymond F. Kokaly, Longlei Li, Natalie Mahowald, Ronald L. Miller, Gregory S. Okin, Thomas H. Painter, Gregg A. Swayze, Michael Turmon, Jouni Susilouto, and David S. Wettergreen
Journal Article, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 247, September, 2020
Active SLAM using 3D Submap Saliency for Underwater Volumetric Exploration
S. Suresh, P. Sodhi, J. Mangelson, D. Wettergreen, and M. Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3132 - 3138, May, 2020
Planetary Rover Exploration Combining Remote and In Situ Measurements for Active Spectroscopic Mapping
A. Candela, S. Kodgule, S. Vijayarangan, K. Edelson, D. Thompson, E. Noe Dobrea, and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5986 - 5993, May, 2020
Robust Path Planning for Slope Traversing Under Uncertainty in Slip Prediction
Hiroaki Inotsume, Takashi Kubota, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3390 - 3397, April, 2020
Probabilistic Super Resolution of Remote Mineral Spectroscopy
A. Candela, D. Thompson, D. Wettergreen, K. Cawse-Nicholson, S. Geier, M. Eastwood, and R. Green
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 13241 - 13247, February, 2020
Estimation of Surface Reflectance and Mineral Composition by Combining In Situ and Remote Spectroscopic Measurements
Alberto Candela, David R. Thompson, Suhit Kodgule, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Kevin Edelson, E. Z. Noe Dobrea, and David S. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, 2019
Autonomy for Ocean Worlds Exploration
Rebecca Castano, Thomas A. Cwik, William B. McKinnon, Bill Diamond, David S. Wettergreen, Jonathan D. Weinberg, Justin Ratner, Reid Simmons, Pablo Sobron, Geronimo L. Villanueva, and David Smyth
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, 2019
Non-myopic Planetary Exploration Combining In Situ and Remote Measurements
Suhit Kodgule, Alberto Candela, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 536 - 543, November, 2019
Parametric Study and Design Guidelines for Rigid Wheels for Planetary Rovers
H. Inotsume, S. Moreland, K. Skonieczny, and D. Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Terramechanics, Vol. 85, pp. 39 - 57, August, 2019
A Study of Unsupervised Classification Techniques for Hyperspectral Datasets
Himanshi Yadav, Alberto Candela, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS '19), pp. 2993 - 2996, July, 2019
Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period
M. Fernández-Martínez, R. dos Santos Severino, M. Moreno-Paz, I. Gallardo-Carreño, Y. Blanco, K. Warren-Rhodes, M. García-Villadangos, M. Ruiz-Bermejo, A. Barberán, D. Wettergreen, N. Cabrol, and V. Parro
Journal Article, Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 10, July, 2019
Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment
K. Warren-Rhodes, K. Lee, S. Archer, N. Cabrol, L. Ng-Boyle, D. Wettergreen, K. Zacny, and S. Pointing
Journal Article, Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 10, February, 2019
Visible/Shortwave and Thermal Infrared Measurements at Cuprite, Nevada: Complementary or Corroborating?
Alberto Candela, David R. Thompson, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, David S. Wettergreen, Sven Geier, Michael L. Eastwood, Robert O. Green, and Roger Nelson Clark
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, 2018
Robust Plant Phenotyping via Model-based Optimization
Paloma Sodhi, Hanqi Sun, Barnabas Poczos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 7689 - 7696, October, 2018
Spatial Spectroscopic Models for Remote Exploration
David R. Thompson, Alberto Candela, David S. Wettergreen, Eldar Noe Dobrea, Gregg A. Swayze, Roger N. Clark, and Rebecca Greenberger
Journal Article, Astrobiology, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 934 - 954, July, 2018
Automatic Experimental Design Using Deep Generative Models of Orbital Data
Alberto Candela, David R. Thompson, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '18), June, 2018
Efficiently Sampling from Underlying Physical Models
G. Foil and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '18), pp. 57 - 65, June, 2018
Field Experiments in Robotic Subsurface Science with Long Duration Autonomy
Srinivasan Vijayarangan, David Kohanbash, Greydon Foil, Kris Zacny, Nathalie Cabrol, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 515 - 529, September, 2017
Strategic Autonomy for Reducing Risk of Sun-Synchronous Lunar Polar Exploration
Nathan Otten, David Wettergreen, and William Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 465 - 479, September, 2017
High-throughput Robotic Phenotyping of Energy Sorghum Crops
Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Paloma Sodhi, Prathamesh Kini, James Bourne, Simon Du, Hanqi Sun, Barnabas Poczos, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 99 - 113, September, 2017
In-field Segmentation and Identification of Plant Structures using 3D Imaging
Paloma Sodhi, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5180 - 5187, September, 2017
Planetary Robotic Exploration Driven by Science Hypotheses for Geologic Mapping
Alberto Candela, David Thompson, Eldar Noe Dobrea, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3811 - 3818, September, 2017
Science-Aware Exploration Using Entropy-Based Planning
Shivam Gautam, Bishwamoy Sinha Roy, Alberto Candela, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3819 - 3825, September, 2017
Advantages of Continuous Excavation in Lightweight Planetary Robotic Operations
K. Skonieczny, D. Wettergreen, and W. Whittaker
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 1121 - 1139, August, 2016
Finding Routes for Efficient and Successful Slope Ascent for Exploration Rovers
Hiroaki Inotsume, Colin Creager, David Wettergreen, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '16), June, 2016
Autonomous soil analysis by the Mars Micro-beam Raman Spectrometer (MMRS) on-board a rover in the Atacama Desert: a terrestrial test for planetary exploration
J. Wei, A. Wang, J. L. Lambert, D. Wettergreen, N. Cabrol, K. Warren-Rhodes, and K. Zacny
Journal Article, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 46, No. 10, pp. 810 - 821, October, 2015
Considering the Effects of Gravity When Developing and Field Testing Planetary Excavator Robots
K. Skonieczny, T. Carlone, W. Whittaker, and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '15), pp. 299 - 312, June, 2015
Planning Routes of Continuous Illumination and Traversable Slope using Connected Component Analysis
Nathan D. Otten, Heather L. Jones, David S. Wettergreen, and William L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3953 - 3958, May, 2015
Recognition of Highway Workzones for Reliable Autonomous Driving
Y-W Seo, J. Lee, W. Zhang, and D. Wettergreen
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 708 - 718, April, 2015
Spatio-spectral exploration combining in situ and remote measurements
David R. Thompson, David Wettergreen, Greydon Foil, Padraig Michael Furlong, and Anatha Ravi Kiran
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '15), pp. 3679 - 3685, 2015
Science Autonomy for Rover Subsurface Exploration of the Atacama Desert
David Wettergreen, Greydon Foil, Padraig Michael Furlong, and David R. Thompson
Journal Article, AI Magazine, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 47 - 60, December, 2014
Slope Descent using Plowing to Minimize Slip for Planetary Rovers
Daniel Loret de Mola Lemus, David Kohanbash, Scott Jared Moreland, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 803 - 819, September, 2014
Visualizing and Analyzing Machine-soil Interactions using Computer Vision
Krzysztof Skonieczny, Scott Jared Moreland, Vivake Asnani, Colin Creager, Hiroaki Inotsume, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 820 - 836, September, 2014
Productive Lightweight Robotic Excavation for the Moon and Mars
K. Skonieczny, M. Delaney, D. Wettergreen, and W. L. Whittaker
Journal Article, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, July, 2014
Budgeting Samples for Exploration in Unknown Environments
P. M. Furlong and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '14), June, 2014
Onboard Detection and Correction of Orbital Registration Errors Using Rover Imagery
G. Foil, C. Cunningham, D. Wettergreen, and W. L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '14), June, 2014
Analysis of Grouser Performance to Develop Guidelines for Design for Planetary Rovers
Hiroaki Inotsume, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '14), June, 2014
Sequential Allocation of Sampling Budgets in Unknown Environments
P. M. Furlong and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 157 - 162, May, 2014
Kernel-based Tracking for Improving Sign Detection Performance
Jong Ho Lee, Young-Woo Seo, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4388 - 4393, November, 2013