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- From: hagerman@ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: How to Explore Mars
- Message-ID: <HAGERMAN.93Jan7224103@rx7.ece.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 03:41:03 GMT
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- So, my subject line got you to read at least this far :-]
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- There has been some discussion about the tradeoffs between using one
- large robot and many small robots for planetary exploration. Has the
- Erebus experiment changed the opinion of anyone here? I don't want to
- restrict attention to the specific results; for example, I don't think
- we learned anything new about fault tolerance. Rather, I'm hoping for
- new thoughts engendered by considering the experiment in general. In
- my mind, for example, the experiment supports large robots for such
- use since a fairly standard large robot design could be fairly easily
- modified to conceivably navigate the volcano, and it seems less likely
- that the same would hold for small robots. Any other thoughts?
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- - John
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