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- From: strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
- Subject: Re: FTS
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- Organization: The Voice of Fate
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:48:14 GMT
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- In article <BxowF6.Mzs.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- >-From: benson@gemed (Mark Benson 5-4228)
- >-Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- >-Date: 9 Nov 92 22:06:20 GMT
- >-Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
- >
- >
- >-Yes, I believe so. SSF had (and I believe still has) a program for the
- >-Flight Telerobotic Servicer (FTS). Under Phase B of the contract, various
- >-options were studied, ranging from basically remote control to releatively
- >-sophisticated, knowledge / rule based AI for functions ranging from task
- >-planning and collision avoidance functions. Among these possible levels was
- >-a basic "learn and play" mode, where the operator would do the first one, and
- >-then basically just monitor the subsequent 'n' executions of the activity.
- >-I was working for Martin-Marietta at the time, and heard they won the
- >-contract. Haven't heard much since.
- >
- >-In fact, at the time, there was such a thing as the NASA / NBS Standard
- >-Reference Model (NASREM), describing various levels of control over such
- >-a system, from task planning and resource scheduling down to individual joint
- >-motions and limit checks (kinematics).
- >
- >I believe the FTS has been cancelled, or at least deferred. Some time ago,
- >the person who was in charge of the NIST part of the project said funding
- >had been cut off.
- >
- >John Roberts
- >roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
- >
- Yes, the FTS program has been cancelled, for a variety of reasons.
- Some of th lead work was being done here at RPI. An ex of mine was doing
- some of the work on the arm end. I don't know what exactly happened to her
- notes. When she left the grad program was just before the FTS was cancelled.
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- It looked interesting and there had been an outside chance that if the FTS
- had flown on a test flight in 93, she would have been a payload specialist.
- That is one regret she has... not being able to fly...
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