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In November of 1998, an expedition from Carnegie Mellon University travelled to the Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The purpose of the expedition was to demonstrate autonomous navigation and robotic classification of meteorites and the characterization of various robotics technologies in a harsh, polar setting. This paper presents early results of experiments performed on this expedition with CCD cameras and laser range finders. It evaluates the ability of these sensors to characterize polar terrain. The effect of weather on this characterization is also analyzed. The paper concludes with a discussion on the suitability of these sensors for Antarctic mobile robots.
This work — supported in part under NASA Ames Grant NAG2-1233, “Accurate Localization from Visual Features” — was performed at Carnegie Mellon University as Visiting Student Scholar from LAAS-CNRS.
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Vandapel, N., Moorehead, S.J., Whittaker, W.“., Chatila, R., Murrieta-Cid, R. (2000). Preliminary results on the use of stereo, color cameras and laser sensors in antarctica. In: Experimental Robotics VI. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 250. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0119385
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