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NASA Innovation Rover and Helicopter
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Here's an update after a few months have passed. The rover has been all over the country and is still holding up to the abuse of the public driving it for hours a day during one of their exhibitions.
Shortly after running this it was soon realized that 4 wheel steering would behoove the rover. We simply added another servo and it was immediately clear that this was an excellent setup. As an R/C enthusiast, I am amazed at the crawling capabilities of this rig.
Adding the plate was a simple process thanks to Lee Morin cutting it perfectly.
Here is a video of the helicopter that was also built. There is no sound, but you can get the idea of what it does. The crawler here is shown in action toward the end of the video.
JSC Magazine article featuring the rover:
If you thought remote control (RC) helicopters and RC ground vehicles were just toys used by kids to perform aerobatic tricks, think again. These devices, along with a special van used in the former X-38 program, inspired original ideas for a group of Johnson Space Center team members. These ideas were turned into a plan and became a successful submission to the JSC Innovation Board.
What began as an effort to create pioneering avionics software for NASA’s X-38 escape ship for the International Space Station evolved into a low-cost, rapid prototyping technology that is controlled from inside a fifteen-passenger van called the Advanced Cockpit Evaluation System (ACES).This ACES van can control an RC helicopter in the air and a RC Rover over ground terrain.
04/22/11 - New Video Added of Rover and Heli
05/01/11 - NASA Adds Robotics Arm to Rover
05/04/11 - Innovation Day 2011
05/02/12 - Innovation Day 2012
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