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Surface Telerobotics: Development and Testing of a Crew Controlled Planetary Rover SystemIn planning for future exploration missions, architecture and study teams have made numerous assumptions about how crew can be telepresent on a planetary surface by remotely operating surface robots from space (i.e. from a flight vehicle or deep space habitat). These assumptions include estimates of technology maturity, existing technology gaps, and operational risks. These assumptions, however, have not been grounded by experimental data. Moreover, to date, no crew-controlled surface telerobot has been fully tested in a high-fidelity manner. To address these issues, we developed the "Surface Telerobotics" tests to do three things: 1) Demonstrate interactive crew control of a mobile surface telerobot in the presence of short communications delay. 2) Characterize a concept of operations for a single astronaut remotely operating a planetary rover with limited support from ground control. 3) Characterize system utilization and operator work-load for a single astronaut remotely operating a planetary rover with limited support from ground control.
Document ID
20160006510
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bualat, Maria G. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Fong, Terrence (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Allan, Mark (Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Bouyssounouse, Xavier (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Cohen, Tamar (Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Kobayashi, Linda (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
May 23, 2016
Publication Date
September 10, 2013
Subject Category
Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence And Robotics
Ground Support Systems And Facilities (Space)
Report/Patent Number
AIAA 2013-5475
ARC-E-DAA-TN11288-1
Meeting Information
Meeting: Space 2013
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: September 10, 2013
End Date: September 12, 2013
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 089929.01.02
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNA08CG83C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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