TY - GEN
T1 - An antarctic deployment of the NASA/JPL tumbleweed polar rover
AU - Behar, Alberto
AU - Carsey, Frank
AU - Matthews, Jaret
AU - Jones, Jack
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - The Tumbleweed Rover, currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is a large, windblown, inflated ball, which carries an instrument payload in its interior. Such rovers offer an effective and simple means of gathering data over large spatial extents of Earth, Mars, and other solar system bodies. Tumbleweeds could prove to be a safe and economical way of deploying instruments such as a ground penetrating radar or a magnetometer in numerous hostile environments. The latest version of the rover was recently deployed in Greenland, where it completed a more than 130km autonomous traverse across an ice sheet. Communicating via the Iridium satellite network, the rover in question successfully and reliably relayed live GPS, temperature, and pressure data to a ground station at JPL for nearly ten days. The follow-on rover is currently being readied for a traverse from the South Pole to the coast of Antarctica some 2000km away. The Antarctic test is set to take place in February of 2004 and will serve to verify Tumbleweed as an effective means of harvesting data in extreme and remote settings.
AB - The Tumbleweed Rover, currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is a large, windblown, inflated ball, which carries an instrument payload in its interior. Such rovers offer an effective and simple means of gathering data over large spatial extents of Earth, Mars, and other solar system bodies. Tumbleweeds could prove to be a safe and economical way of deploying instruments such as a ground penetrating radar or a magnetometer in numerous hostile environments. The latest version of the rover was recently deployed in Greenland, where it completed a more than 130km autonomous traverse across an ice sheet. Communicating via the Iridium satellite network, the rover in question successfully and reliably relayed live GPS, temperature, and pressure data to a ground station at JPL for nearly ten days. The follow-on rover is currently being readied for a traverse from the South Pole to the coast of Antarctica some 2000km away. The Antarctic test is set to take place in February of 2004 and will serve to verify Tumbleweed as an effective means of harvesting data in extreme and remote settings.
KW - Extreme Environments
KW - Mobile Robotics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:32844455331
SN - 1889335215
SN - 9781889335216
T3 - Robotics: Trends, Principles, and Applications - Proceedings of the Sixth Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC
SP - 453
EP - 460
BT - Robotics
A2 - Jamshidi, M.
A2 - Ollero, A.
A2 - Martinez-de Dios, J.R.
A2 - Jamshidi, J.S.
T2 - Robotics: Trends, Principles, and Applications - International Symposium on Robotics and Applications, ISORA - Sixth Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC 2004
Y2 - 28 June 2004 through 1 July 2004
ER -