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Mission / Moon

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NASA · 2019–now · also Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover

NASA rover built to map water ice and other volatiles in and around permanently shadowed regions near the lunar south pole.

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Papers: 32
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Surface Mobility & Terramechanics6
Perception & State Estimation5
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Lunar Gateway3
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Chandrayaan1
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VIPER Lunar Rover Agile Mission Systems

Jay TrimbleSpaceOps 2023Mar 6, 2023

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks VIPER

Mar 6, 2023

Lunar Resources Catalog (LRC): Viper Pathfinder Dataset

Kimberly Ennico Smith, L. Keszthelyi, Ross A. Beyer, Anthony Colaprete +4 moreLPSC 2022Mar 7, 2022

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS ISRU & CONSTRUCTION Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks CLPS VIPER Artemis

Mar 7, 2022

A Study Demonstrating that Using Gravitational Offset to Prepare Extraterrestrial Mobility Missions is Misleading

Wei Hu, Pei Li, Arno Rogg, Alexander Schepelmann +3 moreJFR / Field Robotics 2025Mar 31, 2025

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS ISRU & CONSTRUCTION Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks VIPER

Mar 31, 2025

TRIDENT Drill Validation at Mars and Lunar Analog Field Sites

B Glass, C Stoker, H Battah, S Boelter +4 moreLPSC 2024Mar 11, 2024

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS ISRU & CONSTRUCTION Manipulation & Grasping Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Design, Mechanisms & Hardware VIPER

Mar 11, 2024

A PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR LUNAR ROVER OPERATIONS

Nevindu BatagodaPreprint 2025May 8, 2025

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Perception & State Estimation VIPER

May 8, 2025

A physics-based sensor simulation environment for lunar ground operations

Nevindu M. Batagoda, Bo-Hsun Chen, Harry Zhang, Radu Serban +1 moreIEEE Aerospace 2024 5 citedOct 6, 2024

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Perception & State Estimation VIPER

Oct 6, 2024