GPR Robot - Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering

In 2008 students and faculty from the Thayer School and researchers with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory designed and fabricated Yeti, an autonomous robot for Ground Penetrating Radar surveys in Antarctica. The design and fabrication was funded by NASA JPL. With support from the National Science Foundation, Yeti has been deployed to Greenland and Antarctica. Yetis sister, the solar-powered Cool Robot, has a blog at coolrobotgreenland2013.blogspot.com

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Yeti is taking a break for the summer of 2013 and being readied for another deployment to Antarctica in the fall of 2013 for a new project t...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Yeti Surveys Warren Cave

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After some debugging and testing, we performed some autonomous GPR surveys at Warren Cave.  Warren is one of several fumoralic ice caves tha...
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Recent Yeti Press

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Yeti has been getting some great press recently; read on! Curiosity’s Cousins: Autonomous Polar Robots Explore Earth’s Extremes Wired Ea...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Yeti Arrives at Mt. Erebus

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After a frustrating 5-week delay, Yeti has finally arrived at LEH.  Due to a series of very unfortunate events, he's been stagnant at va...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

LiDAR at Mt. Erebus

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Today we said goodbye to Kevin Mickus (gravity man) and Jed Freschette (LiDAR man), two of our awesome team doing awesome science at Mt. Ere...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Measuring Gravity at Mt. Erebus

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Measuring gravity changes at Mt. Erebus will help measure the "plumbing" of the volcano or, how the magma flows within the volcano...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Monitoring Mt. Erebus at Lower Erebus Hut (LEH) Observatory

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Lower Erebus Hut (LEH) at the base of Mt. Erebus crater.  Photo: Rebecca Williams The Lower Erebus Hut (LEH) is the main monitoring sta...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Yeti Goes to Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

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Yeti's next adventure is his maiden voyage of science!  This current deployment will be the first ALL SCIENCE campaign to the Poles, wh...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Yeti at Old Pole: Part II

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The Survey: The figures below show a floor plan for the hazardous areas, and Yeti's survey tracks for exploring the sunken building. ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Yeti at Old Pole: Part I

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When last I posted, Yeti was off to a moonlighting gig at South Pole Station.  Here I'll talk a little bit about the history of the stat...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

More Yeti Press

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More links to news reports on Yeti: Scientific American : Harnessing Robots to Study Inaccessible Arctic MSNBC : Rover Goes For Test Drive A...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Crevasse Detection: what to do when you don't have ice

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The end of summer and start of fall has proved a tumultuous time for Yeti. The shortage of funds and lack of ice breakers means Yeti will n...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Intro to Crevasse Detection

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I thought I would provide some more background on my work in crevasse detection. Suk Joon and Tom Lane did a great job chronicling their ef...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Yeti's Next Phase: Autonomous Crevasse Detection

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As 2011 closes, Yeti has made some serious improvements in both his behavior and abilities. Our exiting hero, Suk Joon is off to serve his ...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Yeti Press

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Wow looks like people are taking a liking to our dutiful friend Yeti! Newspapers New York Times Discovery Popular Mechanics The Dartmouth E...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Success

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After the many flight delays and cancellations yesterday, Suk Joon was finally able to fly in this morning. Immediately following lunch we...
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Day 7 the best day

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Yeti traveling autonomously doing square wave pattern The robot circling near the waypoint when the turning effort is saturated due to the r...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Bad Weather

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A huge snow storm rolled in today. Summit has received several feet of snow and the powder is really soft. Walking outside of the camp I...

Days 4-5

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Day 4- Brandon and I took Yeti off base for the first time. We strapped Yeti to a sled and took a pair of snowmobiles west of the skiway. ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Notes on Summit and the Project

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Summit is a camp at the peak of the Greenland ice sheet. The camp is located at about 10,500 feet elevation and the temperature stays belo...
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Days 3 and Pictures from Day 1 and 2

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pictures taken on the flight from Kanger to Summit Photos taken by Suk Joon of the area around the base at Kanger The KISS building we lived...
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Second Day at the Summit

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Today, we decided to fix the problems that we found yesterday. In the morning, we first worked on the connection between the sled and the ro...

First day at the Summit

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After 2 hour flight in National Guard's Cargo Airplane, we finally arrived at the Summit. After a quick lunch, we went to straight to wo...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Last Day

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Despite my best efforts, today is the day I have to leave McMurdo and return to the real world. It's been an unbelievable experience s...
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