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- From: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
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- Subject: Dante (Erebus) Specifications
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:10:13 GMT
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- Well, I finally got ahold of a spec sheet. I am also getting ahold of a revised schedule for the actual operation.
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- Dante Specifications
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- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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- Means of Propulsion: 4 legs on each of 2 frames
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- Height: 2.5m
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- Body Width: 1.7m
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- Overall Width 1.875m (foot to foot)
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- Ground Clearance: zero minimum, 1.45m (maximum)
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- Length: 3m (foot to foot)
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- Weight: 450kg
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- Speed: 2m/minute
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- Slope Handling: 30 (without tether)
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- COMPUTERS
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- Communications: (1) Motorola 68030 VME, 8Mbytes memory, 3mips,
- 0.5Mflop, with Ethernet and serial ports
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- Servo Control: (1) Motorola 68030 VME, 8Mbytes memory, 3mips,
- 0.5Mflop
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- TELEOPERATION CAMERAS
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- General: (6) RGB color CCD cameras
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- Lens: 6mm
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- Distance: 0.2m minimum, infinite maximum
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- Field of View: 45
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- Format: Standard NTSC
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- TELEMETRY
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- Means: 400m single mode fiber (Dante to Virgil)
- 3km single mode fiber (Virgil to Base Station)
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- Mode: High speed parallel and serial data
- communications
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- LASER SCANNER
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- Field of View: 350 degrees circular scan, ~30 degrees elevation
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- Range: 3m minimum, 30m maximum
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- KINESTHETIC SENSING
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- Sensed Variable Sensor
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- Frame crank angle resolver
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- Vertical leg position potentiometers
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- Vertical leg motion limits microswitches
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- Tether tension instrumented pin on reel
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- Tether exit direction potentiometers
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- Tether motor position resolver
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- Relative frame yaw potentiometer
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- Yaw motion limits microswitches
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- Enclosure temperatures temperature sensor ICs
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- PROXIMITY/CONTACT SENSING
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- Sensed Variable Sensor
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- Foot proximity cylindrical capaciflector
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- Foot contact optical proximity detector
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- Foot contact force LVDT and spring
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- Foot temperature temperature sensor IC
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- Body contact sensors tape switches
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- SCIENCE PACKAGE SENSORS
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- Sensed Variable Sensor
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- Aerosol mass concentration 4-stage quartz crystal
- microbalance impactor
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- Fumarole gas composition gas chromatograph
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- Sampled gas temperature thermocouple
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- Surface temperature infrared thermometer on pan &
- tilt mount
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- U, K, Th concentration in geologic mat'l gamma spectrometer
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- SCIENCE PACKAGE SAMPLERS
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- Collected Sample sampling device
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- Aerosol 47 mm filter cassette & vacuum
- pump
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- fumarole gas evacuated and Giggenbach
- bottles
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- Virgil Specifications (Virgil was not sent since ice would be
- questionable)
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- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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- Height: 1m
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- Width: 1.2m
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- Length: 4m
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- Weight: 4540kg
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- Speed: 30kph
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- Track: 2.6m
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- Ground Clearance: 0.1m (4") minimum, 0.4m (16") maximum
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- Slope Handling: 45
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- COMPUTERS
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- Comm & control: (1) Motorola 68030 VME, 8 Mbytes memory, 3 MIPs, 0.5
- MFLOPs, with Ethernet and serial ports
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- Planning & Perception: (1) Sun SparcStation IPX, 64 Mbytes memory, 28 MIPs, 4
- MFLOPs, 400 Mbyte hard drive, with Ethernet and serial
- ports
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- POWER SOURCES
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- Main: Lycoming internal combustion engine
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- Hydraulic: twin variable displacement pumps
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- Electrical: 5kW Honda generator & Behlman 1700W UPS
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- Control Consoles
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- BASE STATION (EREBUS HUT)
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- COMPUTERS
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- Planning & comm: Sun SparcStation IPX, 64 Mbytes memory, 28 MIPs, 4
- MFLOPs, 400 Mbyte hard drive, with Ethernet and serial
- ports and (2) additional Ethernet ports
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- Perception: Sun SparcStation IPX, 48 Mbytes memory, 28 MIPs, 4
- MFLOPs, 400 Mbyte hard drive, high speed parallel
- interface for laser interface, with Ethernet
- and serial ports
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- Satellite comm: Sun SparcStation2, 48 Mbytes memory, 28 MIPs, 4
- MFLOPs, 400 Mbyte hard drive, high speed serial port,
- live video acquisition/compression system, with
- Ethernet and serial ports.
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- VIDEO
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- Recorders: (2) Panasonic S-VHS VCRs
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- Monitors: (2) 19" Sony monitors
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- MISSION CONTROL (NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER)
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- COMPUTERS
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- Satellite comm: Sun SparcStation2, 48 Mbytes memory, 28 MIPs, 4
- MFLOPs, 400 Mbyte hard drive, high speed serial port,
- live video acquisition/compression system, with
- Ethernet and serial ports.
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- Kerien Fitzpatrick Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- Field Robotics Center (412)268-6564
- The Robotics Institute Internet: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
- Carnegie Mellon University
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