Literature Review

This page lists and links the growing literature regarding Autonomous Mission Planning and biosignature image Detection for Planetary Exploration with Drones.

This page actively extends the literature stated on A Review of Current Approaches for UAV Autonomous Mission Planning for Mars Biosignatures Detection and the thesis (coming soon). If you find resources or references relevant to this field please don't hesitate to contact us through Issues with the link to be added, or feel free to add it yourself and submit a pull request.

2022:

H. F. Grip et al., "Flying a Helicopter on Mars: How Ingenuity's Flights were Planned, Executed, and Analyzed," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, 2022, pp. 1-17, doi: 10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843813. link (Already on thesis)

2023:

F. Mier-Hicks et al., "Sample Recovery Helicopter," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115951. link (Already on thesis)

J. L. Anderson et al., "Ingenuity, One Year of Flying on Mars," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-18, doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115837. link (Already on thesis)

M. G. Müller et al., "Uncertainty Estimation for Planetary Robotic Terrain Segmentation," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115611. link (Already on thesis)

D. Lüdtke et al., "ScOSA on the Way to Orbit: Reconfigurable High-Performance Computing for Spacecraft," 2023 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 34-44, doi: 10.1109/SCC57168.2023.00015. link

2024:

Kallstrom, K., Weist, L., Schatzman, N., Shirazi, D., Dominguez, M., & Young, L. (2024, February 6). PlanetarY Telemetric Helicopter for Investigation and Analysis (PYTHIA): A Rotorcraft for Martian Lava Tube Exploration. 2024 Transformative Vertical Flight. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240001049 link

Bețco, D., Pârvu, P.-V., & Ciudin, S. (2024). Autonomous navigation for the Martian Inspection Drone. Acta Astronautica, 216, 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.12.052 link

Patel, A., Karlsson, S., Lindqvist, B., Kanellakis, C., Agha-Mohammadi, A.-A., & Nikolakopoulos, G. (2022). Towards Energy Efficient Autonomous Exploration of Mars Lava Tube with a Martian Coaxial Quadrotor. Advances in Space Research: The Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.11.014 link link repos used