{"id":233461,"date":"2015-09-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"f14ffa9ab45ae8763bf03a624bd56eb9"},"modified":"2015-09-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:00:00","slug":"andreas-mogensen-controls-ground-rover-from-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233461","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Mogensen controls ground rover from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/andreas_mogensen_controls_ground_rover_from_space\/15591907-1-eng-GB\/Andreas_Mogensen_controls_ground_rover_from_space_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPutting a round peg in a round hole is not hard to do by someone standing next to it. But on 7 September 2015 ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen did this while orbiting 400 km up aboard the International Space Station, remotely operating a rover and its robotic arm on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas used a force-feedback control system developed at ESA, letting him feel for himself whenever the rover\u2019s flexible arm met resistance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese tactile sensations were essential for the success of the experiment, which involved placing a metal peg into a round hole in a \u2018task board\u2019 that offered less than a sixth of a millimetre of clearance. The peg needed to be inserted 4 cm to make an electrical connection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas managed two complete drive, approach, park and peg-in-hole insertions, demonstrating precision force-feedback from orbit for the very first time in the history of spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Interact Centaur rover used in the experiment was based at ESA\u2019s technical centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. It was designed and built by ESA\u2019s Telerobotics &amp; Haptics Laboratory in collaboration with graduate students from Delft University of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/09\/andreas_mogensen_controls_ground_rover_from_space\/15591907-1-eng-GB\/Andreas_Mogensen_controls_ground_rover_from_space_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPutting a round peg in a round hole is not hard to do by someone standing next to it. But on 7 September 2015 ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen did this while orbiting 400 km up aboard the International Space Station, remotely operating a rover and its robotic arm on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas used a force-feedback control system developed at ESA, letting him feel for himself whenever the rover\u2019s flexible arm met resistance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese tactile sensations were essential for the success of the experiment, which involved placing a metal peg into a round hole in a \u2018task board\u2019 that offered less than a sixth of a millimetre of clearance. The peg needed to be inserted 4 cm to make an electrical connection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndreas managed two complete drive, approach, park and peg-in-hole insertions, demonstrating precision force-feedback from orbit for the very first time in the history of spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Interact Centaur rover used in the experiment was based at ESA\u2019s technical centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. It was designed and built by ESA\u2019s Telerobotics &amp; Haptics Laboratory in collaboration with graduate students from Delft University of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}