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NEWS
2008 Robotics Recipients of Space Act Awards
10/28/2008
Space Act Awards were presented to current and former members of the Mobility and Robotics Systems Section, for contributions to technology and flight missions.
The NASA Space Act Awards were set up by the Space Act of 1958 to reward outstanding scientific or technical contributions sponsored, adopted, or used by NASA which contribute significantly to aeronautics and space activities. The Board Awards, where were evaluated by NASAs Inventions and Contributions Board, are the most prestigious of the NASA Space Act Awards.
Roboticists receiving awards in this period were:
ICB Exceptional Award
MER Mobility Flight Software
Mark W Maimone, Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki
ICB Major Awards
METERS: Mars Exploration Rover Enhanced Telemetry Extraction and Reporting System
Mark W. Maimone, Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Robert R. Liebersbach
Visual Target Tracking on the Mars Exploration Rovers
Won S. Kim, Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Khaled S. Ali
A Xilinx based FPGA implementation of Stereo correlation
Carlos Y. Villalpando, Steven B. Goldberg, Larry H. Matthies, Mark W. Maimone
Rover Slip Validation and Prediction
Jeng Yen
SPACKLE: Scripts Providing A Cool Kit of teLemetry Enhancing tools
Mark W Maimone
ROAMING: Robotic Operations Automation: Mechanisms, Imaging, Navigation Report
Mark W. Maimone, Robert R. Liebersbach
Automated Camera Calibration
Siqi Chen, Yang Cheng, Reg G. Willson
ICB Standard Awards
JPLFineCal - Automated Camera Array Fine Calibration
Yang Cheng, Daniel S. Clouse, Adnan I. Ansar, Curtis W. Padgett
Science Activity Planner: Uplink Planning Component
Paul G. Backes, Jeffrey S. Norris, Mark W. Powell, Robert C. Steinke, Marsette A. Vona
Automatic Rock Detection and Mapping from HiRISE Imagery
Yang Cheng, Andres Huertas, Douglas S. Adams
Planned Activity Complexity Evaluation (PACE)
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Antonio Diaz-Calderon
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