Searching for Life on Extraterrestrial Bodies: Fuzzy Autonomous Systems for Planetary Reconnaissance

FUZZY AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS FOR PLANETARY RECONNAISSANCE Roberto Furfaro, James M. Dohm, Wolfgang Fink, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dirk Schulze-Makuch Alberto G. Fairen, P.T. Ferre, Mark A. Tarbell, Trent M. Hare, Goro Komatsu, Alexis J. Palmero-Rodriguez, Victor R. Baker, Hirdy Miyamoto, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, robertof@email.arizona.edu, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Universita d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, Department of Geosystem Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Lab, Moffet Field, CA.