How to Explore Mars

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From: John Hagerman
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 03:41

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So, my subject line got you to read at least this far :-]

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?

- John
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hagerman@ece.cmu.edu

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