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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by Liam Pedersen, David Wettergreen, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Chris McKay, Matthew DiGoia, Dominic Jonak, Stuart Heys, James Teza, Michael WagnerLORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the
distribution of microbes in Antarctica’s ice sheets.
Robotic platform requirements include navigational
autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to
operate unattended for a month without introducing
contamination that would affect the results. This paper
details the LORAX investigation, the navigational
autonomy development and testing, and an analysis of
wind and solar power to accomplish this mission.