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robot exploration developments
I missed it if anybody brought this one up:
from http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050309_lorax.html or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329130622.htm quote Date: 2005-04-05 Researchers Deploy Robot On Frozen Lake In Preparation For Antarctic Expedition Nomad, one of Carnegie Mellon University's most accomplished robotic rovers, is at it again. This time the rover that trekked 220 kilometers through Chile's Atacama Desert and explored Antarctica for meteorites is being groomed for a potential return to the frozen continent to search for signs of living microorganisms near the top of its icy surface. [...] In the past, Nomad has largely been teleoperated, but for the LORAX expedition, it was given the "brains" of another robot called Zoé that has been surveying microscopic life in the Atacama Desert. "The goal of this field experiment was to establish that Nomad's mobility on snow and ice and our technology for autonomous navigation meet the requirements for survey traverse in the Antarctic," said Robotics Institute Associate Research Professor David Wettergreen. /quote And of course, the Atacama Desert work was part of figuring out how to detect life on Mars, as well. Picture at http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/extra_art/050309_lorax_1.jpg /dps |
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snidely wrote:
[...] And of course, the Atacama Desert work was part of figuring out how to detect life on Mars, as well. See, for instance, http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050315_atacama.html or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329130243.htm quote Carnegie Mellon Detection System Finds Life In Atacama Desert; Mars May Be Future Site For Rover-based Technology Current Mars expeditions raise the tantalizing possibility that there may be life somewhere on the red planet. But just how will future missions find it? A system being developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists could provide the answer. At the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston this week (March 14-18), Carnegie Mellon scientist Alan Waggoner is presenting results of the life detection system's recent performance in Chile's Atacama Desert, where it found growing lichens and bacterial colonies. This marks the first time a rover-based automated technology has been used to identify life in this harsh region, which serves as a test bed for technology that could be deployed in future Mars missions. "Our life detection system worked very well, and something like it ultimately may enable robots to look for life on Mars," says Waggoner, a member of the "Life in the Atacama" project team and director of the Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center at Carnegie Mellon's Mellon College of Science. /quote photo at http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/extra_art/050315_atacama_1.jpg with caption "Alan Waggoner, Atacama team member and director of the Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center at Carnegie Mellon, crouches next to Zoë, a robotic rover, to spray the life-detection probes onto the sample area. In the future, the probes will be sprayed from instrumentation located underneath the rover. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University)" /dps |
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