Robotics for Human Exploration

Robots can do a variety of work to increase the productivity of human explorers. Robots can perform tasks that are tedious, highly repetitive or long-duration. Robots can perform precursor tasks, such as reconnaissance, which help prepare for future human activity. Robots can work in support of astronauts, assisting or performing tasks in parallel. Robots can also perform "follow-up" work, completing tasks designated or started by humans. In this paper, we summarize the development and testing of robots designed to improve future human exploration of space

Development and Testing of the Smart SPHERES Telerobotic Free-Flyer

Smart SPHERES is a free-flying robot that can be remotely operated by astronauts in space, or by mission controllers on the ground. We are developing Smart SPHERES to perform a variety of intravehicular activities (IVA) inside the International Space Station (ISS). These IVA tasks include interior environmental surveys, inventory, and mobile camera work. During 2013, we tested crew-controlled remote operations and wireless network-based localization with Smart SPHERES on ISS. In 2014, we plan to test 3D vision-based navigation

Robot Technology Development: Perception, User Interfaces and Architecture

Overview presentations of the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group: (1) Robot Technology Development and (2) NASA Ames Planetary Mapping

Design and testing of a Stewart Platform Augmented Manipulator for space applications

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130).Sponsored by NASA. NAGW-21Terrence W. Fong.M.S

Planetary Exploration Rebooted! New Ways of Exploring the Moon, Mars and Beyond

In this talk, I will summarize how the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group has been developing and field testing planetary robots for human exploration, creating automated planetary mapping systems, and engaging the public as citizen scientists

Robot Technology Development: Perception, User Interfaces and Architecture

Overview presentation of the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group

Robots for Human Exploration

A general public presentation describes how robots can be used for human exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond

The Human-Robot Interaction Operating System

In order for humans and robots to work effectively together, they need to be able to converse about abilities, goals and achievements. Thus, we are developing an interaction infrastructure called the "Human-Robot Interaction Operating System" (HRI/OS). The HRI/OS provides a structured software framework for building human-robot teams, supports a variety of user interfaces, enables humans and robots to engage in task-oriented dialogue, and facilitates integration of robots through an extensible API

Telerobotics and the Deep Space Gateway

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