Eva Report
05/01/2013
Nikolay Dzis-Voynarovskiy
Eva Number:
12
Eva Date:
2013-05-01
Time Slot:
laterPM
Purpose:
We planned to test our walking robot near the Hab.
The main goal of our experiment is to test robot–operator interaction
in Mars-like environment. Serious problem is that a person who
controls a rover see an environment through onboard cameras with
limited view. He or she does not see a full picture with all obstacles
nearby so one cannot possibly choose a safe route for robot.
Our experiment is simple – take a robot, put it on Mars-like surface
near MDRS, let operator to control robot only by onboard cameras and
to walk as long as robot can. Walking robot is small and relatively
slow that’s why there is a great risk to encounter obstacle and not to
go around it or/and to get stuck. Google Lunar X PRIZE rules require
moving at least 500 meters. We planned to test how realistic is that
aim for a small robot.
Narrative:
Today we tested our walking robot with partial success. We lost signal
from wireless camera, on-board computer freezed, and it turned to be
very difficult to do simple and routine operations of robot's
restarting in EVA suits. Nevertheless our robot started to walk and
move about 10 m but stopped due to loss of control. We were satisfied
to see that pacing works much better than moving on wheels at
irregular rough surface. We plan to repeat a test on May, 2-3.
Eva Depart Time:
3:25 pm
Check In Time One:
3:40 pm
Check In One E:
518292
Check In One N:
4250783
Check In Note One:
We arrived to the point near the Musk observatory and started to test a rover.
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Eva Return Time:
5:20 pm
Wp1 E:
518292
Wp1 N:
4250783
Waypoint1arrive Time:
3:40 pm
Eva W P1depart Time:
5:10 pm
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