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Gregg Rabideau is a pioneering researcher in space robotics and autonomous systems, whose career spans over two decades of advancing the frontiers of AI-driven exploration across the solar system. His work centers on autonomous navigation, mission planning and scheduling, and multi-agent coordination for robotic spacecraft — research areas that have proven critical to NASA's most ambitious planetary exploration efforts. Rabideau's most celebrated contribution is his central role in developing AutoNav, the self-driving navigation system powering NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. This technology has guided 88% of the rover's 17.7-kilometer traverse during its first Martian year, representing a transformative leap in operational efficiency — a paper now cited over 100 times. His earlier foundational work on integrated planning and scheduling for Mars rover command generation, dating back to the Pathfinder era, helped establish the intellectual groundwork for these advances. Beyond Mars, Rabideau has tackled the challenges of autonomous coordination for multi-spacecraft missions and contributed to Europa Lander autonomy prototypes. His most recent work extends these principles to the Moon through NASA's CADRE mission, demonstrating multi-robot cooperative exploration. Collectively, his contributions have fundamentally shaped how humanity explores worlds beyond Earth.