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Article #1769Re: How to Explore Mars
From: Barbara H. Webb
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 13:23
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 13:23
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In article <HAGERMAN.93Jan7224103@rx7.ece.cmu.edu> hagerman@ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman) writes: >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? Well, I wouldn't say it changed my opinion, but I thought it sort of showed an advantage of many small robots: if one bit of machinery fails it will only stop one robot, not the whole project. I also couldn't help thinking that small robots might have been easier to get to the crater in the first place. But obviously in the absence of a sucessful deployment of a robot herd for a comparable task (as yet) there's no proof that it's the better way to go. BW
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!edcastle!aifh!bhw From: bhw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars Message-ID: <1993Jan9.132301.13877@aifh.ed.ac.uk> Date: 9 Jan 93 13:23:01 GMT References: <HAGERMAN.93Jan7224103@rx7.ece.cmu.edu> Reply-To: bhw@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland Lines: 14