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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:56:22 GMT
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- -From: benson@gemed (Mark Benson 5-4228)
- -Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- -Date: 9 Nov 92 22:06:20 GMT
- -Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
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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, I believe so. SSF had (and I believe still has) a program for the
- -Flight Telerobotic Servicer (FTS). Under Phase B of the contract, various
- -options were studied, ranging from basically remote control to releatively
- -sophisticated, knowledge / rule based AI for functions ranging from task
- -planning and collision avoidance functions. Among these possible levels was
- -a basic "learn and play" mode, where the operator would do the first one, and
- -then basically just monitor the subsequent 'n' executions of the activity.
- -I was working for Martin-Marietta at the time, and heard they won the
- -contract. Haven't heard much since.
-
- -In fact, at the time, there was such a thing as the NASA / NBS Standard
- -Reference Model (NASREM), describing various levels of control over such
- -a system, from task planning and resource scheduling down to individual joint
- -motions and limit checks (kinematics).
-
- I believe the FTS has been cancelled, or at least deferred. Some time ago,
- the person who was in charge of the NIST part of the project said funding
- had been cut off.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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