More Information on the GPS Rover Project

Current Members

• Masayoshi Matsuoka

Past Members

• Edward LeMaster (initiator)
• Guttorm Opshaug (leapfrog)
• Mel Ni (rover prototype)

Publications

Masayoshi Matsuoka, Stephen M. Rock, and Maria G. Bualat
Rover, Go Your Own Way: Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Array.
GPS World Magazine, June 2004, pp. 14-22.
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=102384

MatsuokaRB:2004a

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Masayoshi Matsuoka, Stephen M. Rock, and Maria G. Bualat
Autonomous Deployment of a Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Array for Mars Rover Navigation.
2004 IEEE Position, Location, and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Monterey, CA, April 2004.
"Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for the Best Paper at the IEEE PLANS 2004".

LeMasterMR:2003

Edward A. LeMaster, Masayoshi Matsuoka, and Stephen M. Rock
Mars Navigation System Utilizes GPS.
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 2003, pp. 3-8

LeMasterR:2003

Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
A Local-Area GPS Pseudolite-Based Navigation System for Mars Rovers.
Journal of Autonomous Robots, Vol. 14, No. 2-3 , Mar-May 2003, pp. 209-224.

MatsuokaLR:2002

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Masayoshi Matsuoka, Edward A. LeMaster, and Stephen M. Rock
3-D Capabilities for GPS Transceiver Arrays.
Institute of Navigation GPS-2002 Conference, Portland, Oregon, September 2002.

Opshaug:2002

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Guttorm Opshaug
Leapfrog Navigation System.
Institute of Navigation GPS-2002 Conference, Portland, Oregon, September 2002.

LeMaster:2002

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Edward A. LeMaster
Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Arrays: Theory and Experiment.
Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford, CA, June 2002.

LeMasterMR:2002

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Edward A. LeMaster, Masayoshi Matsuoka, and Stephen M. Rock
Field Demonstration of a Mars Navigation System Utilizing GPS Pseudolite Transceivers.
2002 IEEE Position, Location, and Navigation Symposium, Palm Springs, CA, April 2002.

LeMasterR:2002

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Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
An Improved Solution Algorithm for Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Arrays.
2002 Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2002.

LeMasterR:2001

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Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
A Local-Area GPS Pseudolite-Based Mars Navigation System.
IEEE 10th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Budapest, Hungary, August 2001.

LeMasterR:2000

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Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
Field Test Results for a Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Array.
Institute of Navigation GPS-2000 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2000.

LeMasterR:1999

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Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
Self-Calibration of Pseudolite Arrays Using Self-Differencing Transceivers.
Institute of Navigation GPS-99 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, September 1999.

StoneLPR:1999

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Jonathan Stone, Edward A. LeMaster, J.D. Powell, and Stephen M. Rock
GPS Pseudolite Transceivers and their Applications.
Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, San Diego, California, January 1999.

LeMasterR:1998

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Edward A. LeMaster and Stephen M. Rock
Mars Exploration Using Self-Calibrating Pseudolite Arrays.
Institute of Navigation GPS-98 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, September 1998.

Related Projects

• NASA Ames - Intelligent Mechanisms Group
• CMU - Natural Landmark Based Navigation
• CMU - Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

• JPL - Pathfinder Archives
• JPL - Mars Surveyor 2001
• Cornell - Athena Rover

For questions or comments contact: rover@arl.stanford.edu
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