Operational Testing of Small Planetary Rovers
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Space Systems Laboratory - Department of Aerospace Engineering - University of Maryland |
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Space Robotics State of the Art and Future Challenges (Chapters 3 and 4 - 3 is a good overview, 4 is about humanoid robots which isn't relevant to your project, but might be of interest to you.) [PDF: 4.3 Mb, 50 pgs.]
Duke, Hoffman, and Snook, Lunar Surface Reference Missions: A Description of Human and Robotic Surface Activities NASA TP-2003-210793 (A good overview of what is planned for lunar surface operations - more background than anything else.) [PDF: 6.0 Mb, 136 pgs.]
Chen, Haas, Pillalamarri, and Jacobson, Human-Robot Interface: Issues in Operator Performance, Interface Design, and Technologies Army Research Lab ARL-TR-3834 (The early sections have some good discussion of the problems of remote control and remote driving, but the bulk of the paper is on non-traditional input devices.) [PDF: 885 Kb, 100 pgs.]
Olsen and Goodrich, Metrics for Evaluating Human-Robot Interactions [PDF: 270 Kb, 8 pgs.]