Future of Engineering
Sunday, February 10, 2008
NASA Robots to Test Communication Systems from Antarctica for Future Space Missions
NASA is using a small robotic vehicle to test a host of systems that NASA may use in future planetary mission, as well as in more immediate operations like a maintenance flight to the Hubble Space Telescope. The project acronym in this case is GREAT (Goddard Robotics for Exploration and Avionics Testing). It's an engineering model which is being used to test avionics that are flying on our Hubble missions, Comberiate explained of the tracked vehicle. Its amob ile test bed.
University students mentored by GSFC engineers like Comberiate built the tank-shaped robot and its various systems. It features a LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) scanner that uses an infrared laser beam to create a 180-degree image of the area in front of the robot.
Full report here
University students mentored by GSFC engineers like Comberiate built the tank-shaped robot and its various systems. It features a LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) scanner that uses an infrared laser beam to create a 180-degree image of the area in front of the robot.
Full report here
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