Navigation is an essential element of many remote robot operations including search and
rescue, reconnaissance, and space exploration. Previous reports on using remote mobile …

The cumulative fractional area covered by rocks versus diameter measured at the Pathfinder
site was predicted by a rock distribution model that follows simple exponential functions that …

Abstract The FootFall Planning System is a ground‐based planning and decision support
system designed to facilitate the control of walking activities for the ATHLETE (All‐Terrain …

Mars Pathfinder successfully landed at Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997, deployed and navigated
a small rover about 100 m clockwise around the lander, and collected data from three …

Abstract The Autonomy and Robotics Area (ARA) at NASA Ames Research Center has
investigated the use of various types of Virtual Reality-based operator interfaces to remotely …

Remote sensing data at scales of kilometers and an Earth analog were used to accurately
predict the characteristics of the Mars Pathfinder landing site at a scale of meters. The …

The Point Spread Function (PSF) of the eROSITA miror modules is specified to have an on-
axis Half Energy Width (HEW) of 15 arcsec. This is only slightly larger than the eROSITA …

This paper describes our photogrammetric analysis of the Imager for Mars Pathfinder data,
part of a broader program of mapping the Mars Pathfinder landing site in support of …

We report on a field experiment held near Silver Lake playa in the Mojave Desert in
February 1999 with the Marsokhod rover. The payload (Descent Imager, PanCam, Mini …

Modern NASA planetary exploration missions employ complex systems of hardware and
software managed by large teams of engineers and scientists in order to study remote …