Here's a link to the NASA press release describing all the details to that fix of the Galileo orbiter. I remembered it because I sometimes work at JPL and walked into a lab where a JPL-er was packing up what looked like a home-brew old time reel-to-reel tape player. It turned out that it was the sister device to the Galileo flight system and the guy I was talking to was one of the brains who had figured out the fix!
JPL press release
As part of the same program for which the packbots were developed, NASA's JPL has worked with iRobot on adding sensors and software to make more autonomous versions of these same platforms. My small company (Rossum Technologies) has been part of this effort for several years. Our 'urbie' version has stereo vision, omnidirectional cameras, laser range finder, infra-red cameras and more. Besides
basic obstacle avoidance the robot is capable of autonomous stair climbing, visual-based navigation, leader-follower and others.
Read more on JPL's web site
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Here's a link to the NASA press release describing all the details to that fix of the Galileo orbiter. I remembered it because I sometimes work at JPL and walked into a lab where a JPL-er was packing up what looked like a home-brew old time reel-to-reel tape player. It turned out that it was the sister device to the Galileo flight system and the guy I was talking to was one of the brains who had figured out the fix! JPL press release
As part of the same program for which the packbots were developed, NASA's JPL has worked with iRobot on adding sensors and software to make more autonomous versions of these same platforms. My small company (Rossum Technologies) has been part of this effort for several years. Our 'urbie' version has stereo vision, omnidirectional cameras, laser range finder, infra-red cameras and more. Besides basic obstacle avoidance the robot is capable of autonomous stair climbing, visual-based navigation, leader-follower and others. Read more on JPL's web site