Mars exploration rover surface operations: driving opportunity at Meridiani Planum

Author

Biesiadecki, Jeffrey J. ; Baumgartner, Eric T. ; Bonitz, Robert G. ; Cooper, Brian K. ; Hartman, Frank R. ; Leger, P. Christopher ; Maimone, Mark W. ; Maxwell, Scott A. ; Trebi-Ollennu, Ashitey ; Tunstel, Edward W. ; Wright, John R.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

71

Abstract

Since landing on the Meridiani Planum region of Mars in January 2004, the Mars exploration rover (MER) vehicle named Opportunity has been sending back pictures taken from several different craters that would provide evidence that the region did indeed have a watery past. This paper details the experience of driving Opportunity through this alien landscape during its first 400 days on Mars, from the point of view of the other rover planners, the people who tell the rover where to drive and how to use its robotic arm

Keywords

aerospace robotics; mobile robots; planetary rovers; telerobotics; Mars exploration rover surface operations; Meridiani Planum region; Opportunity; robotic arm; Instruments; Landmine detection; Marine vehicles; Mars; Mobile robots; Robotics and automation; Soil; Space vehicles; Vehicle detection; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9932

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MRA.2006.1638017

Filename

1638017