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On August 7th of the year 1999, a group of students and their fearless leader from the GROK Lab in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa will make a great trek to the geologically diverse areas surrounding Park City, Utah.
The Mission: In preparation for the upcoming robotic missions to Mars, the GROK Lab will be testing new technology that may be utilized for conducting remote science. The GROK Lab is collaborating with the Department of Geology to develop useful tools for gathering and interpreting data. Together they hope to find solutions to problems that face remote science in an inexpensive and timely fashion. In particular, they are focusing on the problems surrounsing on the problems surrounding data collection and interpretation. They are developing new technologies that will improve the type of data collected and lead to a more truthful understanding of the remote environment. Some of the exciting things happening include a ThrowCam for capturing close up images of rocks in the proximity of the robot, an EndoCam which utilizes current medical surgery technology to collect data, and an Intelligent Interface which is being developed to analyze how geologists interpret and understand remote information.; They are also developing software to more effectively use and catalog the data collected, as well as, simplify its organization and presentation to the remote scientists.
Team Members:
Fearless Leader: Geb Thomas Project Managers: Nyssa Loeppke, Chris Petrie Team: Jerry Steele, Jacob Wagner, Martin Rick, Beth Wyatt, Mike Bauerly, Rose Mills, Shelley McClarigan, Simona Fischer, Steven Dow
Projects and People
| Individual Project | Project Leader |
| Panoramic Cameras | Martin & Rose |
| ThrowCam | Chris |
| SpectraCam | Beth & Mike |
| Descent Imagery | Chris |
| Intelligent Data Archive | Shelley |
Conference Paper - ISGC Conference '99
