TY - GEN
T1 - Robotic lake lander test bed for autonomous surface and subsurface exploration of Titan lakes
AU - Fink, Wolfgang
AU - Tuller, Markus
AU - Jacobs, Alexander
AU - Kulkarni, Ramaprasad
AU - Tarbell, Mark A.
AU - Furfaro, Roberto
AU - Baker, Victor R.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We introduce a robotic lake lander test bed that can be operated either stand-alone or as part of a Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance mission architecture to study and field test an integrated hardware and software framework for fully autonomous surface and subsurface exploration and navigation of liquid bodies. The lake lander is equipped with both surface and subsurface sensor technologies. Our particular focus is on Saturn's moon Titan with its hydrocarbon lakes with respect to future missions involving lake landers (e.g., Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) mission), potentially in conjunction with balloons/airships and orbiter-support overhead. This test bed serves as an analog to a Titan unpiloted surface vessel equipped with its own onboard realtime navigation and hazard avoidance system, surface and subsurface exploration sensor suite, and autonomous science investigation software system. As such the test bed helps map out a technical path toward true autonomy for the robotic exploration of the Solar System.
AB - We introduce a robotic lake lander test bed that can be operated either stand-alone or as part of a Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance mission architecture to study and field test an integrated hardware and software framework for fully autonomous surface and subsurface exploration and navigation of liquid bodies. The lake lander is equipped with both surface and subsurface sensor technologies. Our particular focus is on Saturn's moon Titan with its hydrocarbon lakes with respect to future missions involving lake landers (e.g., Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) mission), potentially in conjunction with balloons/airships and orbiter-support overhead. This test bed serves as an analog to a Titan unpiloted surface vessel equipped with its own onboard realtime navigation and hazard avoidance system, surface and subsurface exploration sensor suite, and autonomous science investigation software system. As such the test bed helps map out a technical path toward true autonomy for the robotic exploration of the Solar System.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO.2012.6187056
DO - 10.1109/AERO.2012.6187056
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84861179602
SN - 9781457705564
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
BT - 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference
T2 - 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Y2 - 3 March 2012 through 10 March 2012
ER -