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- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.223449.9269@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 22:34:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.032649.48720@datamark.co.nz> <1992Nov6.160447.12613@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Nov8.064256.7682@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
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- In article <1992Nov8.064256.7682@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
- >Is anyone looking into robots with very limited autonomy? That is,
- >under direction from a human, but able to execute instructions on
- >their own for periods of, say, ten seconds?
-
- Yes, there is work on this going on at JSC and (I think) at JPL. We
- call this telerobotics at JSC (i.e half teleoperation, half robotics).
- It is a problem that is very difficult, as you must be able to do both
- autonomy and teleoperation and be smart about when and how to switch
- modes.
-
- Most of the work is centered on teleoperation and on robotics at the
- centers. I am working on a KC-135 experiment for this fiscal year to
- take an arm and a vision system and test grasping of polyhedra in
- microgravity with vision as the primary input. This is a tough problem
- and one that needs to be solved to make lots of missions less expensive.
- (From SEI lunar bases to Nick's comet/asteroid miners).
-
-
- --
- Edmund Hack - Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co. - Houston, TX
- hack@aio.jsc.nasa.gov - I speak only for myself, unless blah, blah..
- NAR 12256 TRA 2004 (dang, 3 too late, Hal.....)
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