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From: doctor@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong)
Subject: Re: NASA Ames Antarctica TROV Project
Message-ID: <1993Oct17.170559.14522@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
Keywords: telerobotics, Antarctica, NASA, virtual environments
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 17:05:59 GMT
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In article <29o1ge$181@scratchy.reed.edu> reeder@reed.edu (P. Douglas Reeder) writes:
>
>Please, tell me you've tested the long-distance teleoperation closer
>to home first!
>
>Doug Reeder                              Internet: reeder@reed.edu

The technology being used in the Antarctica TROV project has been
under development at NASA Ames for the past 18 months. Numerous tests
have been performed including the following teleoperation (note: the
operator station was located at NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA in all
cases):

August 1992 - Mobile Exploration Landrover (NASA Ames research
vehicle) in Ames high bay and parking lot.

November 1992 - TROV pan/tilt camera platform in McMurdo Station, Antartica.

February 1993 - Russian Marsokhod rover in Ames high bay.

May 1993 - Aerospace Robotics Laboratory air-bearing robot at Stanford
University (Palo Alto, CA).

May 1993 - Russian Marsokhod rover in Moscow.

August 1993 - TROV in Pacific Ocean off of Hopkins Landing, CA.

We feel that the technology is well understood at this point and that
in terms of "long-distance teleoperation", the current experiment
involves minimal risk.

Terry Fong
NASA Ames Research Center
terry@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

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