1. IEEE ICRA 2005 Planetary Rover Workshop April 22, 2005

2. Motivation and Objective:
To gather representatives of the robotics community investigating new
capabilities in autonomous planetary surface mobile robotics. Through
presentation of results from large ongoing efforts, and through discussion
with attendees, we intend to capture a description of the current state of
the art, and a sense of the challenges which still need to be addressed.
Topics to be covered:
- natural terrain navigation
- terrain relative precision position estimation
- system design and software integration
- command and control with limited bandwidth
- field tests on Earth and Mars
Primary Audience: Space Robotics
Secondary Audience: natural terrain mobile robotics
Relation to Previous Workshops:
I hosted a similar workshop at IROS 1997, after the Pathfinder Mission
with the Sojourner Rover. Three of the presenters of this workshop were
presenters at that workshop, providing a good comparison of progress in
the 8 year interval. See
for details.

3. Relation to Previous Workshops:
I hosted a similar workshop at IROS 1997, after the Pathfinder Mission
with the Sojourner Rover. Three of the presenters of this workshop were
presenters at that workshop, providing a good comparison of progress in
the 8 year interval. See
for details.
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