FreeClimber
Learning to climb rock walls of unknown geometry.
Period of Performance:
2016–2021
My role:
Task leader
Additional Contributors: Publication authors (see References below).
Project website:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-jpl/freeclimber-lemur-3
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Funded by NASA's Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR). |

Learning to climb rock walls of unknown geometry.
Period of Performance:
2016–2021
My role:
Task leader
Additional Contributors: Publication authors (see References below).
Project website:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-jpl/freeclimber-lemur-3
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Funded by NASA's Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR). |

We are designing autonomous climbing probes that learn how to climb rock walls of unknown geometry (Uckert et al., 2018).
Press:
(YouTube)