4 papers
A General Purpose Method for Robotic Interception of Non-Cooperative Dynamic Targets
Tanmay P. Patel, Erica L. Tevere, Erik H. Kramer +1
This paper presents a general purpose framework for autonomous, vision-based interception of dynamic, non-cooperative targets, validated across three distinct mobility platforms: a…
AI Space Cortex: An Experimental System for Future Era Space Exploration
Thomas Touma, Ersin Daş, Erica Tevere +9
Our Robust, Explainable Autonomy for Scientific Icy Moon Operations (REASIMO) effort contributes to NASA's Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) program, w…
Few-shot Scooping Under Domain Shift via Simulated Maximal Deployment Gaps
Yifan Zhu, Pranay Thangeda, Erica L Tevere +5
Autonomous lander missions on extraterrestrial bodies need to sample granular materials while coping with domain shifts, even when sampling strategies are extensively tuned on Eart…
Learning and Autonomy for Extraterrestrial Terrain Sampling: An Experience Report from OWLAT Deployment
Pranay Thangeda, Ashish Goel, Erica Tevere +6
Extraterrestrial autonomous lander missions increasingly demand adaptive capabilities to handle the unpredictable and diverse nature of the terrain. This paper discusses the deploy…