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welcome back to mission control here in

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houston uh we just mentioned a moment

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ago about the arrival of the george le

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matra automated transfer vehicle

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launched a few weeks ago by the european

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space agency one of the items uh that is

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in the atv awaiting transfer and uh set

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up for uh scientific research is a very

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unique and novel uh experiment called

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haptics one

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joining us today to discuss all of that

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is dr andre sheila who is the head of

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the european space agency's telerobotics

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laboratory at s-tech and an associate

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professor of mechanical materials in

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maritime engineering at delft university

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of technology in the netherlands dr

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sheila thank you very much for joining

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us today it's a pleasure to have you on

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space station live

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thank you rob naviers thank you for

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inviting me

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first off uh give us a

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sort of an overview as to what haptics

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one is all about and how excited are you

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personally to get this experiment on

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board and get it going

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oh i'm very excited actually haptics one

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is really a first timer in the sense of

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uh the fact that never before a force

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reflecting device has been flown to

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space so we have been given the

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opportunity at my laboratory to build a

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force reflecting joystick that would

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find its way up to the station and allow

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crew

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in the future to control robotic systems

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on the planet of earth from the orbiting

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station and you're seeing here a first

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test run that we did with some of the

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astronauts alexander gerst and barry

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wilmore during the crown training

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sessions so that is a joystick

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similar to a normal gaming joystick that

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you would imagine but very highly

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advanced it includes a real-time

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computer it includes some very high

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sensitivity force sensors in there that

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allows to actually perform position and

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force tasks by humans uh haptics one

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also has a tablet pc and we implemented

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a revolutionary new approach on how to

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actually do crew guided procedures uh

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you're seeing here barry wilmore during

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the btc runs how he actually tracks an

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experiment and the tablet pc actually

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guides the astronaut entirely through

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the experiment so it is very similar to

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your usual iphone that you have in an

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app that actually controls you

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automatically through through all the

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menu items and for space this is pretty

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unique and it sets the path for novel

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control stations in the future to come

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in order to allow astronauts to really

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interact intuitively with robotic

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systems on planetary surface or also

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outside the space station

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dr andrei sheila the principal

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investigator of the haptics one

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experiment joining us today dr sheila

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what prompted uh your desire to develop

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such a novel and unique experiment

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oh actually there are two two really um

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basic needs that that we had one was

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really a practical one

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my laboratory has been tasked to

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conceive a more advanced robotic control

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station in the future uh allowing to

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control complex robotic systems in the

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years to come and in this frame we will

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design an exoskeleton controller so we

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decided it would be good to have first

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test first test of the technology to

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actually implement on the station to run

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through the entire processes of

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verification safety medical

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certification um my laboratory is a

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rather small agile laboratory within esa

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so we are eight to ten people and we

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were thrilled to actually test out uh

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part of the development of that

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exoskeleton on a force reflecting

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joystick which already has all the

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computing infrastructure the motor

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controls and all the electronics for the

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later more complex exoskeleton

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controller in place

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secondly there was also a scientific

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rationale for this

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being the lack of data of how humans

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behave in microgravity when controlling

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forces and positions

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so we have a lot of experience on earth

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how to use haptic feedback in robotic

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control but we have not a single data

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point in space and actually microgravity

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so we wanted to understand the principal

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mechanisms on how this works in a

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microgravity environment

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when are we expected to see haptics one

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up and running

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currently the planning is to take place

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around 28 and 29 of september uh by

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alexander gerst the the esa astronaut

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who will be the first crew member to

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execute that set of product calls are

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seven protocols that he will conduct

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that range from measuring all types of

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physical properties and technology

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technical uh properties of the system

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and we hope that we we will take those

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measurements on those dates but knowing

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the the infrastructure of the space

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station some tasks are very high

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priority tasks so there is some

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flexibility that it might take

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place a little bit later or even earlier

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and finally dr sheila what ultimately

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will be the earth based application of

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this revolutionary technology

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well in earth there there are a lot of

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applications basically any application

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that requires

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uh tasks to be carried out in places

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where humans shouldn't be uh imagine uh

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the the catastrophic events of fukushima

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or genobil or also activities deep in

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the ocean like deepwater horizon where

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robotic systems can go but humans can't

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go for these sort of applications we

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need robotic technology that allows to

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make the human feel present at a work

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site even though it's only a technical

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system that is actually there

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so the technology we are developing for

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iss being very intuitive to use will

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directly benefit to those areas

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well it sounds like a fabulous

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opportunity and a great experiment

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coming up and we can't wait to see the

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results and share them with you as they

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unfold dr andrei sheila of the european

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space agency's telerobotics laboratory

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thank you so much for joining us today