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Hyperion Rover, 1 km On One Command
An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Mellon's next generation robot just finished its Chilean expedition and achieved a new planetary exploration benchmark, including being the first autonomous rover to cover 1 km on a single command. The other milestones from the Atacama Desert, Chile--the driest place on the planet--centered on over-the-horizon stereo navigation, sun-tracking for efficient solar panel pointing, and fault recovery. CMU shows pictures
of the robot, called Hyperion, in action. One of its prime objectives was to plot courses that avoid shade, by finding the position of virtually everything in the solar system."
One of it's primary goals is to avoid shady paths by knowing the location of everything in the solar system?
I mean, I've heard of over-engineered. But really folks? : ) That's Scalability.
I assert that my comment is only my opinion, not that of any employer, past, present or future.
It all depends, however, on whether it really was on purpose....
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Hyperion Rover, 1 km On One Command
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 28, @10:56AM
from the planning-ahead dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Mellon's next generation robot just finished its Chilean expedition and achieved a new planetary exploration benchmark, including being the first autonomous rover to cover 1 km on a single command. The other milestones from the Atacama Desert, Chile--the driest place on the planet--centered on over-the-horizon stereo navigation, sun-tracking for efficient solar panel pointing, and fault recovery. CMU shows pictures of the robot, called Hyperion, in action. One of its prime objectives was to plot courses that avoid shade, by finding the position of virtually everything in the solar system."
Shouldn't that be kilometerstones?
Park a boat off of someplace deep. Have your AIBO walk the plank. Depending on where you try this, you should be able to get much more than 1km on a single command.
Robotic considerations in addition to instrument integration include platform configuration, planetary-relevant localization, complex obstacle negotiation, over-the-horizon navigation, and power-cognizant activity planning.
We're looking for a manager at the moment with a lot of those skills.
But seriously, folks. This is quite cool. Its capabilities at the moment seem to surpass by far those of the mars bots that are currently wending their way through space. Am I missing something, though, or have most of those experiments nothing to do with astrobiology? Not a cavil, just wondering.
"over-the-horizon stereo navigation"
That's like when you can hear boy racers in their Escorts before you can see them, right?
Shrike Rover, 1k Slaughtered On One Command
was that it was trying to avid solar occlusions by other planets and moons!
"Response from Hyperion: Cannot execute command, busy navigating 4000km to east to avoid total solar eclipse in 2004".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
- Fly to Chile
- Go to the Atacama desert
- Hide behind a dune (bring water)
- Wait for rover to trundle by
- Take the rover and run
- Possession is
.9 of the law
I call this the "Sandpeople Technique."