Hi,
I am Konrad Schwarzbach, thanks for the translation it is much better then the bablefish. Sorr even my englisch isnt much better. My son end me build that robot, and we would like to anwer your questions. I can send a picture of Jitter, but it somthing about 500KB.
Hi, forget the machine translation. It was very funny to read it. (perhaps for you, to read my english;-) )
Just let me explain the functions of Jitter.
First of all, the Jitter will be transported by a russian rocket to the ISS in November. May be in December one of the astronouts will unpack the robot an switch it on. Then, described by a storybook, they will test the functions. This will take about 15-20 minutes. This is nothing else like any other industry experiments.
Now the technical description of Jitter:
- 2 Mindstorm computers, OS is Lejos
- Programminglanguage JAVA , 6 Threads on 2 processors, intracommunication via infrared
- 2 Impulsdrives (I don't know a better name) for X/Y- and X/Z-axis. If jitter touch a ISS-Wall one Mindstorm (because it has the biggest mass in the robot) will be accelerated for a short moment in perpendicular to the wall (wow what a sentence). In other words if the robot thouch a wall it will "jitter" for a moment and push himself away from the wall.
- 3 aceleration sensors (X/Y/Z-axis) will notice all accelerations and one Mindstorm will compute the spacevector. This given by an IR-Message to the other Mindstorm for balancecontrol.
- 3 Motors with wheels (X/YZ-axis again) can give a rotationimpuls (remember physics;-)) to turn the robot in space. This will be used for balance the robot, or turn the frontside in flight direction after touch a wall.
- 2 Lightsensors to ballance the robot in direction to cabinlight.
- 1 lightsensor (together with a infrared transmitter) to find somethin what's moving around.
- 2 touchsensors to communicate with the astronouts
- 1 touchsensor which triggers the "catchmechanism"
- 1 motor for the catchmechnism
- 2 motors for the drives
The software gives Jitter some additional "features" like playing a song (sounds realy bad like a mobil) and..."
One word to, why spend people hundreds of hours to build a Lego-Robot? My son and me found, it's very exciting to design a robot who realy is be able to operate under microgravity. It was also absolute greate to see the other 9 robots of the final-competition and the real genious ideas in it. And (some may not understand)for my son and me it will be one of the events in our life, we will rember, when our Jitter, we build in many nights, will work in space.
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Hi, I am Konrad Schwarzbach, thanks for the translation it is much better then the bablefish. Sorr even my englisch isnt much better. My son end me build that robot, and we would like to anwer your questions. I can send a picture of Jitter, but it somthing about 500KB.
Hi, forget the machine translation. It was very funny to read it. (perhaps for you, to read my english ;-) )
Just let me explain the functions of Jitter.
First of all, the Jitter will be transported by a russian rocket to the ISS in November. May be in December one of the astronouts will unpack the robot an switch it on. Then, described by a storybook, they will test the functions. This will take about 15-20 minutes. This is nothing else like any other industry experiments.
Now the technical description of Jitter:
- 2 Mindstorm computers, OS is Lejos
- Programminglanguage JAVA , 6 Threads on 2 processors, intracommunication via infrared
- 2 Impulsdrives (I don't know a better name) for X/Y- and X/Z-axis. If jitter touch a ISS-Wall one Mindstorm (because it has the biggest mass in the robot) will be accelerated for a short moment in perpendicular to the wall (wow what a sentence). In other words if the robot thouch a wall it will "jitter" for a moment and push himself away from the wall.
- 3 aceleration sensors (X/Y/Z-axis) will notice all accelerations and one Mindstorm will compute the spacevector. This given by an IR-Message to the other Mindstorm for balancecontrol.
- 3 Motors with wheels (X/YZ-axis again) can give a rotationimpuls (remember physics ;-)) to turn the robot in space. This will be used for balance the robot, or turn the frontside in flight direction after touch a wall.
- 2 Lightsensors to ballance the robot in direction to cabinlight.
- 1 lightsensor (together with a infrared transmitter) to find somethin what's moving around.
- 2 touchsensors to communicate with the astronouts
- 1 touchsensor which triggers the "catchmechanism"
- 1 motor for the catchmechnism
- 2 motors for the drives
The software gives Jitter some additional "features" like playing a song (sounds realy bad like a mobil) and ..."
One word to, why spend people hundreds of hours to build a Lego-Robot? My son and me found, it's very exciting to design a robot who realy is be able to operate under microgravity. It was also absolute greate to see the other 9 robots of the final-competition and the real genious ideas in it. And (some may not understand)for my son and me it will be one of the events in our life, we will rember, when our Jitter, we build in many nights, will work in space.