Autonomy and Perception for Space Mining
Ragav Sachdeva,Ravi Hammond,James Bockman,Alec Arthur,Brandon Smart,Dustin Craggs,Anh-Dzung Doan,Thomas Rowntree,Elijah Schutz,Adrian Orenstein,Andy Yu,Tat-Jun Chin,Ian Reid,Ragav Sachdeva,Ravi Hammond,James Bockman,Alec Arthur,Brandon Smart,Dustin Craggs,Anh-Dzung Doan,Thomas Rowntree,Elijah Schutz,Adrian Orenstein,Andy Yu,Tat-Jun Chin,Ian Reid
Future Moon bases will likely be constructed using resources mined from the surface of the Moon. The difficulty of maintaining a human workforce on the Moon and communications lag with Earth means that mining will need to be conducted using collaborative robots with a high degree of autonomy. In this paper, we describe our solution for Phase 2 of the NASA Space Robotics Challenge, which provided a...
