Barnes, Dave

Honary, Ehsan

Long, Derek

Price, David Ernest

Pugh, Stephen Medwyn

Pullan, Derek

Rendell, Phil

Shaw, Andy

Woods, Mark

In common with most Mars missions, the current communications baselinefor Europe's ExoMars Rover mission exhibits constrained data links withEarth, making remote operations difficult. The time taken to transmitand react to planning data places a natural limit on the amount ofscience exploration that can be achieved in any given period. In orderto increase the potential science return, autonomous science assessmentand response is an attractive option and worthy of investigation. Inthis work, we have integrated technologies and techniques developed inprevious studies and used the resulting test bed to demonstrate anautonomous, opportunistic science concept on a representative roboticplatform. In addition to progressing the system design approach andindividual autonomy components, we have introduced a methodology forautonomous science assessment based on terrestrial field sciencepractice

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CREST Autonomous Robotic Scientist: Developing a Closed-Loop Science Exploration Capability for European Mars Missions

CREST Autonomous Robotic Scientist: Developing a Closed-Loop Science Exploration Capability for European Mars Missions

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