The Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience
Patrick C. McGuire, Jens Ormo, Enrique Diaz-Martinez, Jose Antonio, Rodriguez-Manfredi, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Helge Ritter, Markus Oesker, Joerg, Ontrup, (Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid; University of Bielefeld)

TL;DR
This paper reports on the first field tests of the Cyborg Astrobiologist, a wearable system combining computer vision and decision-making to assist geologists and astrobiologists in real-time exploration.
Contribution
It introduces a wearable computer-vision system capable of autonomous decision-making and demonstrates its effectiveness in real geological field tests, highlighting areas for future improvement.
Findings
System reliably functions in the field
Able to identify interesting points in real-time
Demonstrates potential for autonomous geological exploration
Abstract
We present results from the first geological field tests of the `Cyborg Astrobiologist', which is a wearable computer and video camcorder system that we are using to test and train a computer-vision system towards having some of the autonomous decision-making capabilities of a field-geologist and field-astrobiologist. The Cyborg Astrobiologist platform has thus far been used for testing and development of these algorithms and systems: robotic acquisition of quasi-mosaics of images, real-time image segmentation, and real-time determination of interesting points in the image mosaics. The hardware and software systems function reliably, and the computer-vision algorithms are adequate for the first field tests. In addition to the proof-of-concept aspect of these field tests, the main result of these field tests is the enumeration of those issues that we can improve in the future, including:…
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