Icy Moon Surface Simulation and Stereo Depth Estimation for Sampling Autonomy

1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2024 • Ramchander Bhaskara, Georgios Georgakis, Jeremy Nash, Marissa Cameron, Joseph Bowkett, Adnan Ansar, Manoranjan Majji, Paul Backes

The surface reflectance properties of icy moon terrains (Enceladus and Europa) are inferred from multispectral datasets of previous missions.

Stereo Depth Estimation Stereo Matching +1

Exploring Event Camera-based Odometry for Planetary Robots

no code implementations • 12 Apr 2022 • Florian Mahlknecht, Daniel Gehrig, Jeremy Nash, Friedrich M. Rockenbauer, Benjamin Morrell, Jeff Delaune, Davide Scaramuzza

Due to their resilience to motion blur and high robustness in low-light and high dynamic range conditions, event cameras are poised to become enabling sensors for vision-based exploration on future Mars helicopter missions.

NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

no code implementations • 21 Mar 2021 • Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell, David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Sung-Kyun Kim, Amanda Bouman, Xianmei Lei, Jeffrey Edlund, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Kamak Ebadi, Matthew Anderson, Torkom Pailevanian, Edward Terry, Michael Wolf, Andrea Tagliabue, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Matteo Palieri, Scott Tepsuporn, Yun Chang, Arash Kalantari, Fernando Chavez, Brett Lopez, Nobuhiro Funabiki, Gregory Miles, Thomas Touma, Alessandro Buscicchio, Jesus Tordesillas, Nikhilesh Alatur, Jeremy Nash, William Walsh, Sunggoo Jung, Hanseob Lee, Christoforos Kanellakis, John Mayo, Scott Harper, Marcel Kaufmann, Anushri Dixit, Gustavo Correa, Carlyn Lee, Jay Gao, Gene Merewether, Jairo Maldonado-Contreras, Gautam Salhotra, Maira Saboia Da Silva, Benjamin Ramtoula, Yuki Kubo, Seyed Fakoorian, Alexander Hatteland, Taeyeon Kim, Tara Bartlett, Alex Stephens, Leon Kim, Chuck Bergh, Eric Heiden, Thomas Lew, Abhishek Cauligi, Tristan Heywood, Andrew Kramer, Henry A. Leopold, Chris Choi, Shreyansh Daftry, Olivier Toupet, Inhwan Wee, Abhishek Thakur, Micah Feras, Giovanni Beltrame, George Nikolakopoulos, David Shim, Luca Carlone, Joel Burdick

This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.

Decision Making Motion Planning

Improving Visual Feature Extraction in Glacial Environments

no code implementations • 27 Aug 2019 • Steven D. Morad, Jeremy Nash, Shoya Higa, Russell Smith, Aaron Parness, Kobus Barnard

We took a custom camera rig to Igloo Cave at Mt.

Visual Navigation Visual Odometry