Papers
15
Total Citations
235
H-Index
9
About
Steven Myint is a robotics researcher whose work spans planetary exploration, autonomous manipulation, and robotic modeling, with particular distinction in space robotics systems deployed on Mars. His contributions to NASA's InSight and Mars 2020 Perseverance missions have been foundational: his work on the InSight Mars Lander Robotics Instrument Deployment System (62 citations) and the development of Enhanced Autonomous Navigation software for Perseverance (26 citations) helped enable a new era of capable, semi-autonomous planetary rovers. Myint has played a sustained operational role in Mars 2020 Robotic Operations, contributing to mobility, manipulation, sampling, and helicopter coordination across the mission's first years. His more recent research addresses a critical challenge in long-distance rover traversal—onboard global localization—through both algorithmic contributions and the practical CENSIBLE framework, reducing reliance on human operators for position estimation. Earlier in his career, Myint advanced dexterous robotic manipulation through model-based autonomy developed under the DARPA ARM program (45 citations) and contributed foundational tools including the M3tk modeling toolkit. Collectively, his research bridges theoretical robotics and high-stakes real-world deployment, making him a significant figure in space robotics and autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1InSight Mars Lander Robotics Instrument Deployment System62 citations · 2018
- 2End-to-end dexterous manipulation with deliberate interactive estimation45 citations · 2012
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- 6Results from the First Year and a Half of Mars 2020 Robotic Operations13 citations · 2023
- 7M3tk: A Robot Mobility and Manipulation Modeling Toolkit10 citations · 2014
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- 9Minimal Coordinate Formulation of Contact Dynamics in Operational Space9 citations · 2012
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