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Alberto Elfes
Researcher at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Publications - 110
Citations - 9129
Alberto Elfes is an academic researcher from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aerobot & Mobile robot. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 110 publications receiving 8639 citations. Previous affiliations of Alberto Elfes include Jet Propulsion Laboratory & IBM.
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Steep Terrain Ascension Controller for Hexapod Robots
TL;DR: A controller that feeds in to an existing high-level controller with the goal of improving walking performance when ascending inclined terrain is presented and a new metric, the vertical cost of transport (VCoT), is shown to be an e↵ective measure for comparing inclination ascension performance.
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Mobility productivity impacts on selection of lunar exploration architectures
Jeffrey H. Smith,Alberto Elfes,Hook Hua,Joseph Mrozinski,K. Shelton,William Lincoln,Virgil Adumitroaie,C. R. Weisbin +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative approach developed to evaluate the productivity of alternative human and robot work-system alternatives for a lunar science mission was used for assigning human and robotic work systems to scientific tasks, and the results were used to identify the benefits and costs of alternative rover combinations to establish guidelines for the roles of the different vehicle types.
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Operating a Network of Balloons Instead of Satellites
TL;DR: This paper discusses the use of a network of balloons for communication support in certain areas where many off-shore oil fields are located in Brazil and comments on the most relevant technical and economic aspects of the feasibility of such network.