Cristina Sorice
California Institute of Technology
15 Papers
33 Citations
Cristina Sorice is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Software deployment. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Cristina Sorice include Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Papers
InSight Mars Lander Robotics Instrument Deployment System
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu,Won S. Kim,Khaled Ali,Omair Khan,Cristina Sorice,Philip Bailey,Jeffrey W. Umland,R.G. Bonitz,Constance Ciarleglio,Jennifer Knight,Nicolas Haddad,Kerry Klein,Scott Nowak,Daniel Klein,Nicholas Onufer,Kenneth Glazebrook,Brad Kobeissi,Enrique Baez,Felix Sarkissian,Menooa Badalian,H. Abarca,Robert G. Deen,Jeng Yen,Steven Myint,Justin N. Maki,A. Pourangi,Jonathan Grinblat,Brian Bone,Noah Warner,Jaime Singer,Joan Ervin,Justin Lin +31 more
TL;DR: The InSight Mars Lander is equipped with an Instrument Deployment System (IDS) and science payload with accompanying auxiliary peripherals mounted on the Lander as mentioned in this paper, which is responsible for the first precision robotic instrument placement and release of SEIS and HP3 on a planetary surface.
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Thermal-Inertial Odometry for Autonomous Flight Throughout the Night
Jeff Delaune,Robert A. Hewitt,Laura Lytle,Cristina Sorice,Rohan Thakker,Larry Matthies +5 more
- 01 Nov 2019
TL;DR: This paper demonstrates closed-loop controlled outdoor flights at night on a quadrotor using a state estimator integrated in an autonomy framework for motion planning and control, and analyze thermal-inertial odometry performance extensively from sunset to sunrise, for various thermal non-uniformity levels.
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Image and Data Processing for InSight Lander Operations and Science
H. Abarca,Robert G. Deen,G. Hollins,Payam Zamani,Justin N. Maki,A. Tinio,Oleg Pariser,F. Ayoub,N. T. Toole,S. S. Algermissen,T. Soliman,Y. Lu,Matthew P. Golombek,Fred Calef,K. Grimes,C. De Cesare,Cristina Sorice +16 more
TL;DR: The Instrument Site Selection and deployment for the upcoming Mars InSight Lander is highly dependent on image products, particularly mosaics, created from the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and Instrument Context Camera (ICC).
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CARACaS multi-agent maritime autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles in the Swarm II harbor patrol demonstration
Michael Wolf,Amir Rahmani,Jean-Pierre de la Croix,Gail Woodward,Joshua Vander Hook,David Brown,Steve Schaffer,Christopher Lim,Philip Bailey,Scott Tepsuporn,Marc I. Pomerantz,Viet Nguyen,Cristina Sorice,Michael Sandoval +13 more
TL;DR: New autonomy technology that enabled a team of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to execute cooperative behaviors in the USV Swarm II harbor patrol demonstration is described and a description of autonomy performance in the event is provided.
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Deployed Instrument Monocular Localization on the InSight Mars Lander
Philip Bailey,Cristina Sorice,Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu,Khaled Ali,Steven Myint,Yang Cheng,Eric Cheng,Won S. Kim,Grace Lim +8 more
- 07 Mar 2020
TL;DR: The motivation, implementation, and execution of each monocular localization technique employed by the InSight Instrument Deployment System will be discussed, as well as the results and error sources identified throughout the mission using downlinked images and measurements from the inSight lander and InSightsight Testbed.
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