While significant recent progress has been made in development of mobile robots for
planetary surface exploration, there remain major challenges. These include increased …

This expository paper describes sensing and perception issues facing the space robotics
community concerned with deploying autonomous rovers on other planetary surfaces …

The use of artificial neural networks in the domain of autonomous vehicle navigation has
produced promising results. ALVINN [Pomerleau, 1991] has shown that a neural system can …

The Microrover Flight Experiment (MFEX) is a NASA OACT (Office of Advanced Concepts
and Technology) flight experiment which, integrated with the Mars Pathfinder (MPF) lander …

Planetary rovers are small unmanned vehicles equipped with cameras and a variety of
sensors used for scientific experiments. They must operate under tight constraints over such …

Humans and other terrestrial animals use vision to traverse novel cluttered environments
with apparent ease. On one hand, although much is known about the behavioral dynamics …

This paper describes a complete approach for localization and path selection of any vehicle
like a mobile robot to achieve any planetary exploration missions. In this study, localization …

We present a navigation and planning system using vision for extracting non predefined
landmarks, a dead-reckoning system generating the integrated movement and a topological …

A concept network of autonomous mobile robots intended to carry out tasks related to
planetary space exploration is described. Many aspects of the system have been fashioned …

We present an" artificial neural tissue"(ANT) architecture as a control system for autonomous
multirobot tasks. This architecture combines a typical neural-network structure with a coarse …