Autonomy or interdependence in distributed systems?

Over the last few decades, the field of unmanned systems (UMSs) has begun to emerge into a variety of markets. The military has already deployed unmanned air, sea, and ground vehicles. Universities and other research institutions have developed semi-...

The challenge of space flight in NASA's future is to enable more frequent and more intensive space exploration missions at lower cost. Nowhere is this challenge more acute than among the planetary exploration missions which JPL conducts for NASA. The ...

NASA mission concepts for the upcoming decades of this century include exploration of sites such as steep cliff faces on Mars, as well as infrastructure deployment for a sustained robotic/manned presence on planetary and/or the lunar surface. Single ...