Paper Info
Title
Mars Exploration Rover surface operations: driving spirit at Gusev Crater
Abstract
Spirit is one of two rovers that landed on Mars in January 2004 as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. As of July 2005, Spirit has traveled over 4.5 kilometers across the Martian surface while investigating rocks and soils, digging trenches to examine subsurface materials, and climbing hills to reach outcrops of bedrock. Originally designed to last 90 sols (Martian days), Spirit has survived over 500 sols of operation and continues to explore. During the mission, we achieved increases in efficiency, accuracy, and traverse capability through increasingly complex command sequences, growing experience, and updates to the on-board and ground-based software. Safe and precise mobility on slopes and in the presence of obstacles has been a primary factor in development of new software and techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571411
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mars,aerospace engineering,aerospace robotics,meteorite craters,mobile robots,planetary rovers,planetary surfaces,Gusev Crater,Mars Exploration Rover surface operations,Spirit,ground-based software,on-board software,MER,Mars,Planetary robotics,mobility,rovers
Impact crater,Mars Exploration Program,Computer science,Martian,Mars landing,Artificial intelligence,Bedrock,Astrobiology,Martian surface,Machine learning,Exploration of Mars,Traverse
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
1062-922X
0-7803-9298-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
3.63
2
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Chris Leger1507.83
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu219920.97
John R. Wright3669.68
Scott A. Maxwell4223.63
Robert G. Bonitz5759.78
Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki69511.11
Frank R. Hartman7376.55
Brian Cooper816265.34
Eric T. Baumgartner917320.05
Mark W. Maimone1034835.57
Trebi-Ollennu, A.11767.38