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AET is the human exploration

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telerobotics project as a project that's

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all about using remotely operated robots

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to improve human space exploration the

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teller bionics project is really trying

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to understand how we can improve the way

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that humans live and work in space we

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want to remove a lot of the repetitive

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redundant chores that humans have to do

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on Space Station for example the crew

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spends a lot of time doing in-flight

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maintenance work and so we're trying to

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use Robonaut 2 and the smart spheres to

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to basically offload this work for crew

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and do these kinds of things routinely

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using robots the other thing that we're

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trying to do is use remotely operated

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robots to extend and enhance the ways

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that astronauts can work in space so

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part of this has to do with the idea of

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having an astronauts in a spacecraft

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operate robots on planetary surfaces

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this past summer we spent a lot of time

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working with crew on space station with

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actually three different space station

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astronauts controlling a planetary Rover

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the k10 at NASA Ames the goal of all

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this was to understand how can humans

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astronauts in space use planetary Rovers

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to do work without having to actually

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land on a planetary surface this coming

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year we're doing two really exciting

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things the first is we're actually

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adding a pair of legs to Robonaut 2 on

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the space station for the past two years

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Robonaut been working but it's really

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just been upper body the torso head two

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arms and hands and doing a lot of extra

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fine manipulation work but this coming

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year we're adding a pair of legs and so

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now the system once it's all put

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together will be fully mobile and then

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able to go around the entire space

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station inside and do work not just be

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located in one fixed location the second

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thing we're doing this year is really an

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interesting experiment trying to

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understand how can we have a free-flying

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robot the smart spheres navigate without

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any existing other infrastructure up

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until now we've been working with a

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beacon system so think of it like an

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indoor global positioning system where

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we have fixed ultrasonic transceivers

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beacons that send information to the

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robot to figure out where it's located

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well this year we're trying to do that

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navigation flying around inside a space

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station without any of that and so we're

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using

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basically the same sort of sensors that

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you find on a Kinect you know on a

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videogame but putting on board the space

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station to get a 3d view of what the

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interior of the space station looks like

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so we can fly around one of the things

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that we're really excited about is the

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ability for astronauts to do work

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without having to put on a spacesuit go

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through the process of going outside of

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the spacecraft and the of course turn

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around doing the same thing coming back

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in but being able to use robots that are

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already outside of spacecraft to do work

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right away our long-term goal is to be

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able to have systems like Robonaut 2 or

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an external free-flying robot be able to

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do inspection on the outside of

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spacecraft to do site preparation to do

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change out of various payloads resupply

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of things on the outside and how office

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all be under the control of astronauts

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sitting inside the comfort of the

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spacecraft this year is actually the

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fourth year of the teller robotics

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project and we're actually coming to a

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close at the end of this year our two

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major activities are really integrating

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legs to Robonaut 2 and doing a test with

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the navigation with the smart spheres

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after that we're looking at follow-on

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projects that can take the technology