This paper presents a new strategy for autonomous navigation of field mobile robots on hazardous natural terrain using a fuzzy logic approach and a measure of terrain traversability. The navigation strategy comprises three ...

Operational safety and health monitoring are critical matters for autonomous field mobile robots such as planetary rovers operating on challenging terrain. The paper describes relevant rover safety and health issues and ...

Operational safety and health monitoring are critical matters for autonomous field mobile robots such as planetary rovers operating on challenging terrain. This paper describes relevant rover safety and health issues and ...

Operational safety and health monitoring are critical matters for autonomous planetary rovers operating on remote and challenging terrain. This paper describes rover safety issues and presents an approximate reasoning ...

Technology assessments rely on performance metrics to establish a basis for rating technologies. Metrics are also used to measure relative merit of similar technologies to state-of-the-art technology. Functional performance ...

This paper presents a new strategy for autonomous navigation of eld mobile robots on hazardous natural terrain using a fuzzy logic approach and a novel mea- sure of terrain traversability. The navigation strategy is comprised ...

This paper presents a rule-based fuzzy traversability index that quantifies the ease-of-traversal of a terrain by a mobile robot based on real-time measurements of terrain characteristics retrieved from imagery data. These ...

This paper presents a technique for learning to assess terrain traversability for outdoor mobile robot navigation using human-embedded logic and real-time perception of terrain features extracted from image data. The ...

This expository paper describes sensing and perception issues facing the space robotics community concerned with deploying autonomous rovers on other planetary surfaces. Challenging sensing problems associated with rover ...