From cross-country autonomous navigation to intelligent deep space communications: visual sensor processing at JPL

Author

Manduchi, Roberto ; Matthies, Larry ; Pollara, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2001

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

477

Abstract

We describe ongoing work at JPL in two fields: autonomous navigation for terrestrial vehicles, and prioritized progressive transmission for deep space communications. While such applications may seem rather disparate, they have in common the need for autonomous reasoning about visual information. We first review a number of techniques currently under development that make use of data from color and infrared cameras, multispectral sensors, and laser rangefinder for estimating properties of the terrain cover in outdoor vegetated terrain. We then discuss how onboard visual analysis mechanisms for Mars rovers can be used for prioritizing the data to be transmitted to Earth, in order to maximize the science return of a mission

Keywords

data communication; image colour analysis; laser ranging; mobile robots; navigation; optical communication; robot vision; space communication links; spectral analysis; JPL; Mars rovers; autonomous reasoning; color cameras; cross-country autonomous navigation; infrared cameras; intelligent deep space communications; laser rangefinder; multispectral sensors; onboard visual analysis; prioritized progressive data transmission; terrestrial vehicles; vegetated terrain; visual sensor processing; Aircraft navigation; Cameras; Geoscience; Infrared sensors; Intelligent sensors; Laboratories; Mars; NASA; Propulsion; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Analysis and Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1183-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAP.2001.957054

Filename

957054