>> Okay we have power on this time.
>> We copy, thanks.
>> For step 2 SSC112 is already up, so one I've been using do I need to close everything else
down or are you guys just going to take control of it?
>> We'll take control of the SSC don't close anything down please.
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>> And we have his arms stretched out, he's kind of like the patient
in physical therapy who's been in a cast, we need to start going through range of motion.
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>> We copy and we'll have more ground commanding for you and give you a call back for step 9.
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>> So far everything looks really great going through the preplanned maneuvers.
The sound of the motion is even, it sounds smooth with no abnormal noises.
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>> Okay copy that's step 2.
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>> Okay and I've completed the vision test already, step 3 is complete.
>> Oh, whoo,hoo, thank you.
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>> And the reason is this command didn't kick off the first time I attempted it
and so I went ahead during the LOS I went ahead and did step 3 and saw we still had a long time
to go so I reattempted this one and it kicked off, I'm not sure what happened the first time.
>> We copy that and Mike can we get confirmation that [inaudible]
and that the cameras are in focus?
>> That is affirmative.
>> Awesome, thank you.
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>> Okay slow on twist.
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>> Space center [inaudible] for Mike once the left arm has completed its dancing we would
like for you to press with the right arm dancing.
>> Okay copy that, that's step 2.
>> That's a good copy, thanks.
>> And I've completed the vision test already, step 3 is complete.
>> Whoo,hoo, thank you.
>> Hey I just wanted to say congratulations to the team, I know they've been working on this
for years and it was...today was first motion and this is a big step you know they've dreamed
of getting to for a long time and it's really huge and looked really...it looked right
from here to have a small bit of binding with the cloth in his sleeves at the elbow,
you hadn't felt that before, I'm sure they'll figure out how
to find the right [inaudible] location for him, it's an exciting day
for the robonaut team and congratulations.
>> Thanks for those kind words, the [inaudible] team appreciates them.
>> So check out 1.5 is what we accomplished yesterday and it was a very exciting day
for our lab in particular, all the flight controllers that we had
on the ground watching the robot and the crew.
I don't know if you got a chance to see Mike Fossum in some of the video
but he was a very excited individual running the robot
and then we were equally excited watching him run the robot.
You can sort of already get the sense of the relationship that the crew
and robonaut could have in the future, he was...you could tell
that Mike thought very...like the activities we were doing
with robonaut represented this new age that we're trying to usher
in which is having the crew and a highly dextrous humanoid work together and we were just
so genuinely excited to see his enthusiasm and the events couldn't have gone any better.
Having the first humanoid robot aboard the ISS move under its own power really a momentous day
and we had all of the flight controllers...it was really tough to contain our emotion
because you're suppose to be this stoic...have this sense of seriousness in the control center
but yet we were grinning from ear to ear like kids
in a candy store just having the most wonderful time watching the accomplishments
that were being done before us and it was...it was quite exciting.
So checkout yesterday was looking at how the robot needs to...the difference
between how the robot is going to work in zero G and how we've been testing it on the earth
in 1 G and specifically the robot was going through and moving it's arms one by one,
moving each of the joints in its arm to understand the difference between operating
in 1 G and zero G and so we have these...the robots actions are controlled by a set
of software parameters and the software parameters have to be adjusted between here
on earth and in the space station so we have the robot go through
and adaptively learn the differences between those software parameters.
There's quite a...a certain choreography to it of how we interact with the crew
because we don't talk directly to the crew and how we have
to discuss...we have our robonaut flight controllers and they discuss the actions
and what's going to take place and any off nominals that we might have
with specific actions and so those have to get sent up to the crew and then the crew
in their observations are sending down to the flight controllers
on the ground what they're observing so there's this nice little dance that has to occur
and plus we're doing commanding both from the ground and on board the station
so with yesterday's events for example Mike Fossum was actually commanding the robot
on the station and so he was initiating the scripts, and he was loading the scripts
that were having the robot run through
and like I mentioned adaptively learn it's game parameters for operation.
But at the end we had the ground stow the robot and so there's this nice trade-off
and this dance that has to occur back and forth and a lot of real time ops
that are happening in coordination.
So any time we have a checkout on orbit there's a lot of products that go into that.
We have the training products that we have create, we have crew come over and get trained
up on the robot, they dry run the procedures, we also have a lot of real time ops products
that have to be created, there's an entire flight ops community that we're interfacing with
and everybody has to be brought up to speed on what's going to happen, what's to be expected,
how much time is going to occur and so all that has to be...that all has to be coordinate ahead
of time so that when things are happening real time everything is expected in terms
of what the robot's going to do, what it's next actions are, everybody is on the same page
so it takes and amazing amount of time and preparation in order to achieve that level
of understanding between the ops community.
Then there's the technical side to it, what we're trying to accomplish on the robot
from the scientific point of view and so all that has to be married together
because we have our milestones as researchers in the lab and the ops community has standards
in which they need to achieve those milestones and so we're trying
to bridge those two worlds together on this unique payload such as robonaut.
So this milestone for check out 1.5 was particularly important
because it's the first time the robot moved under its own power.
The previous checkouts that we had done really looked at just booting up the robot systems,
making sure that everything from a sensor point of view, from a computer point
of view had survived assent to the space station as we expected it.
So we powered up the computer systems, we looked at the thermal signatures because we want
to take things slow and we've become very satisfied with the state of the robot
and so check out 1.5 was okay let's get that robot to move
and go through the adaptive learning script to tune the software parameters on how it moves
in zero G. So that was a huge gauntlet that we had to go
through because we're not flying a fancy computer, we're flying a robot
to assist the crew with their daily activities and on the activities in particular
that we feel the robot could better serve, you know cleaning things
and assisting the crew from that point of view.
We ultimately have to get the robot to move and so this was a huge milestone
because it means all the systems, and there are hundreds of systems,
that are cross checking each other, sensors that are cross checking each other,
that have to work in order for the robot to even begin motion.
Robonaut 2 was developed in partnership with General Motors and the technologies coming
out of robonaut are 1, helping General Motors on the manufacturing line and 2,
helping NASA with its pursuit of space exploration,
in particular human space exploration with the cooperation with robotics.