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traditional space flight hardware

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development timelines are measured in

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order of years we were given six months

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to take robonaut from its lab

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environment and to get it qualified for

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the space station by september and

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actually it's not even by september we

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have an on-dock date at ksc of july 2nd

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robonaut was designed to be a human

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assistant just kind of the same way a

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nurse would be to a doctor in an

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operating room

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so you can think of robonaut as helping

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a human worker set up a work site tear

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down a work site hand them a tool please

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hold this for a while and so we want to

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use robonaut in the same exact way

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in the space station and help the crew

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out in in a lot of those same uh types

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we're interested in showcasing the

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technologies that that comprise robonaut

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and chief among those is the dexterity

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that robonaut possesses and so what we'd

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like to

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demonstrate with that is robonaut's

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ability to

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utilize the same connectors the same

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tools and do the same sorts of tasks

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that the astronauts can do on the space

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station in a way to aid them

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so we're going to control robonaut on

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the space station using a space station

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laptop and the ground controllers here

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on the ground are going to be logged

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into that laptop issuing commands to the

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robot to performance activities one of

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the main challenges that we faced

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getting robonaut to fly on the

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international space station has been

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taking a fully developed piece of

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prototype hardware and and getting it

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qualified to meet the rigors of space

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flight

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this has involved analyzing the system

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from a materials point of view from a

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circuit's point of view from a

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mechanic's point of view

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and and

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figuring out what it is we had to change

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on the system so that it would be

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qualifiable for the rigors of

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spaceflight

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emi is electromagnetic interference and

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so what you have to do is you do two

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kinds of testing you look for emi and

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emc and emc is electromagnetic

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compatibility

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when you're a payload or when you have a

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piece of hardware on the space station

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you need to be sure that you don't

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interfere with the hardware that's on

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station or that you don't enter get

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interfered with in a way that causes you

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to create a hazardous condition and so

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what every payload has to do or every

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piece of hardware that's powered has to

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do as one before it goes up on the space

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station or if it's powered on the

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shuttle for that matter has to go

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through a certain set of

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one of the tests we have to perform

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when getting the robot ready for the

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rigors of space flight is simulating in

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a very real sense the vibration

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environment of a shuttle flight and this

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involves mounting robonaut in its cargo

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carrier on a vibration table and shaking

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robonaut launches on sts-133 which is in

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uh september 16th i believe ulf-5

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and our idea for robonaut is to

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initially get it up on the space station

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and have it prove out a lot of the

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the same sort of tasks we've been doing

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here on the ground it's going to be in a

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stationary it's going to be in a

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stationary format where the robot's

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going to be hard mounted with a

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stanchion to a seat track assembly and

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so the robot's going to be set up by the

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astronauts and performance tasks be torn

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down and stored so the robot was

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designed on a very in a very modular way

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so you can replace an arm you can

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replace a hand you can replace a limb

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you can replace a head and so that this

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affords us the opportunity to fly up

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individual pieces or individual parts of

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the robot that are approved for its next

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stages in life for example we could fly

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up an arm or a set of arms that are eva

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arms we could fly up a body that's an

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eva body and so we can replace the robot

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over time to to make it meet the rigors

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of of an eva environment our second

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stage

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of of the robot's life on the space

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station is going to involve a mobility

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package which is going to involve a leg

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that that it can use to move around the

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space station and so the third stage of

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this is going to be a

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an eva package so we're going to be

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upgrading the robot through through the

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course of its life over the next couple