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Standardized field testing of assistant robots in a mars-like environment
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by G Mann, N Small, Kevin LeeKevin Lee, J Clarke, R ShehControlled testing on standard tasks and within standard environments can provide meaningful performance comparisons between robots of heterogeneous design. But because they must perform practical tasks in unstructured, and therefore non-standard, environments, the benefits of this approach have barely begun to accrue for field robots. This work describes a desert trial of six student prototypes of astronautsupport robots using a set of standardized engineering tests developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with three operational tests in natural Mars-like terrain. The results suggest that standards developed for emergency response robots are also applicable to the astronaut support domain, yielding useful insights into the differences in capabilities between robots and real design improvements. The exercise shows the value of combining repeatable engineering tests with task-specific application-testing in the field.
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Department of Computer Science. Conference (16th : 2015 : Liverpool, Eng.)Volume
9287Series
Department of Computer Science ConferencePagination
167 - 179Publisher
SpringerLocation
Liverpool, Eng.Place of publication
Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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2015-09-08End date
2015-09-10ISSN
0302-9743eISSN
1611-3349ISBN-13
9783319224152Language
engPublication classification
E Conference publication; E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2015, Springer International Publishing SwitzerlandEditor/Contributor(s)
Clare Dixon, Karl TuylsTitle of proceedings
TAROS 2015 : Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2015Usage metrics
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