Springer Tracts in Field and Service Robotics 92 431-447 2014年 [査読有り]
This chapter presents a path planning and navigation framework for a planetary exploration rover and its experimental tests at a Lunar/Martian analog site. The framework developed in this work employs a laser range finder (LRF) for terrain feature...
Pose estimation is one of the important tasks for mobile robots exploring in outdoor environments. Recently, visual odometry has received a lot of attention since its localization is accurate even with low-cost sensors. Furthermore, the technique ...
JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS 30(4) 536-551 2013年7月 [査読有り]
This paper presents terrain mapping and path-planning techniques that are key issues for autonomous mobility of a planetary exploration rover. In this work, a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensor is used to obtain geometric information on th...
計測自動制御学会論文集 = Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers 49(6) 646-654 2013年6月
Power source and sensing of self position are commonly required for mobile robots. Recently, wireless power transmission and position sensing from the systems embedded in the surrounding space are proposed as effective measures. Since wireless pow...
Japan has decided to launch the second sample return mission "Hayabusa-2" to the Near Earth asteroid 1999JU3 in 2014. The predecessor spacecraft "Hayabusa" made a great success when it returned to the Earth in June 2010 with a capsule containing s...