About Robotics? I click NEWS ERASMUS Project April 2011 Robots in Space New Medical techniques - Robots in medecine Tourism with Robots Education with Robots Social and household robots Literary and film reviews: robots everywhere EXOMARS Exomars is a space program that enables us to get data about life on Mars, created by the ESA (European Space Agency). The program was split in two missions: -The first in 2016 was a failure, the robot crashed on the surface of Mars. -The second is planned for 2020 and it is a collaboration between Russian engineers and ESA. 2016: bad year for the ESA This mission will help the ESA in their mission on Mars even if the landing gear So the first mission, as we said, was a (LG) was destroyed. This way the agency failure. The landing gear, whose name can learn a lot more from the landing was Schiaparelli crashed at the speed of process. 540 km/h. It was supposed to decelerate from 21 000 km/h to 10 km/h in only 6 2020: hope is permitted minutes. But a sensor malfunctioned, so The second mission, the real one, will the computer decided to throw the base itself onto the first one. In fact the parachutes and the thermal shield. This program was splitted in two parts mission is not entirely a failure because because of the hypothesis of a failure. So TGO is still working perfectly. Its mission the ESA could learn and approve was to measure the gases present in technologies and the process. The Mars’s atmosphere. At this moment it is objective of the second mission is to dig performing an aerobraking around Mars. in Mars’s soil. But today this mission is TGO will be a relay for the mission in threatened by the missing funding, 2020. This failure cost the ESA a lot of because the UE do not want to spend money and obviously the UE, because more money on this programm. In they provide money to the European conclusion we can hope that the second Space Agency. mission will be a success but there is still a lot of work to do in order to reach this objective. Here is picture of what the robot should look like Written by Ségui Damien and Benhenda Yannis (France) About Robotics? I click - 2 - ROBONAUT 2 Robonaut 2 is a highly dexterous than astronauts with their suits in humanoid robot created by NASA in space. Indeed R2, as its name shows it, 2012. The device is meant to help was created to be a robotic assistant astronauts in space to maintain ISS that can work alongside astronauts in and it will aid in future exploration space. "This project exemplifies the missions. promise that a future generation of Robonaut 2, called R2, was created in robots can have both in space and on Houston, Texas by researchers at Earth, not as replacements for humans NASA Johnson Space Center in but as companions that can carry out collaboration with General Motors and key supporting roles," said John Olson, Oceaneering. It is a humanoid robot director of NASA's Exploration possessed of a head, a chest, arms and Systems Integration Office at NASA legs added in 2014. What makes it Headquarters in Washington. Some special is its ability to react to its advantages of a humanoid design is environment with many technologies that Robonaut 2 can take over simple, such as vision systems, image repetitive, or especially dangerous recognition systems, sensor tasks in places such as the integrations, control algorithms, and International Space Station (ISS) and much more. It also has a great tasks, such as changing out an air dexterity which makes it more skilled filter, that can be performed without R2 aboard ISS with astronaut Dan Burbank About Robotics? I click - 3 - « It will allow us to go farther and achieve more than we can probably even imagine today», also said John Olson. modifications to the existing design, R2 was not only designed for space but moreover with human-like hands and was also developed more generally to arms, it is able to use the same tools accelerate the development of the next station crew members use. generation of robots and related Thus, NASA launched R2 on space technologies for use in the automotive shuttle Discovery to become a and aerospace industries. R2 is a permanent resident on the ISS in robotic assistant that can work February 24th 2011. Currently, alongside humans, whether they be Robonaut 2 is being tested inside the astronauts in space or workers at GM station. It is tried out in microgravity manufacturing plants on Earth Thus, and subjected to the station's radiation it has the potential to be a game- and electromagnetic interference changer in multiple industries, environments. The interior operations including logistics and distribution, will provide performance data about medical and industrial robotics, and how a robot may work side-by-side beyond. with astronauts. Station crews are provided with hardware and software to update R2 to enable it to do new tasks. Robonaut being upgraded on orbit Clémence, Soizic, Léa (France) About Robotics? I click - 4 - Since the satellite's Spoutnik launch in 1957 by the Soviets, space exploration engines have left around Planet Earth a “belt of space debris” that endanger working spatial equipment. That’s why scientists from the Japanese space agency Jaxa have tested the cleaning robot, committed to the refueling spaceship Koutonori 6 (stork in Japanese) to the International Space Station (ISS). This prototype is comparable to a trawler: a module throwing a net that could recover some of the space trashes. The sail is equipped with a magnetic load, to attract more easily fragments but also to maintain them in the net and avoid diverting their trajectory. Once the net is full, the module of transport would close the latter then would take it in the atmosphere where it could destroy Wall-E in Space itself. At least that’s how it was supposed to go However, the project proved a Nowadays, there are more complete failure. In February 2017, than 750,000 space debris Jaxa announced the disillusion: the around our blue planet. long cable did not deploy. After days Recently, scientists from all of trying to get the cable to deploy, the over the world wondered about mission planners had to give up. JAXA scientists only had one week to a way to destroy what humans complete the task, and they ran out of leave in space. Is the robot sent time. Koutonori 6 had to re-enter by the Japanese on December Earth’s atmosphere. This is not only a 2016, a sort of Wall-e, the failure for the agency that was equally solution ? disappointed with its astro-hitomi satellite, it is a failure for mankind. Even if the project aborted, Jaxa initiated the hard job of protecting space. This robot revealed the huge problem of Space trashes. For example “Airbus Defense and Space” created in 2017 a capture system which will be sent into space this year. Girard Mathilde, Raffarin Emma, Mouton Sophie About Robotics? I click - 5 - Hubble : Born to discover Why did we choose to work on Hubble? Why is Hubble so famous? Why is it special? First, it’s an old telescope which is still famous. Also, it has enabled us to better Indeed, Hubble's four main instruments understand the world we are living in. allow seeing in the near UV, visible and Finally, it can take amazing pictures. near infrared spectra, with very high Nasa don’t contemplate developping resolution. It orbits at around 600 another telescope like Hubble to kilometers of the Earth and completes a replace it. Scientists have decided to full circle of it in 100 minutes. Thanks to focus on high redshift to study objects its data and pictures, science has which are further and objects which are considerably progressed, such as less warm. determining the rate of expansion of the universe. But the public particularly Spacecraft properties : enjoys its pictures, perhaps because The mass when Hubble was launched they emphasise humanity's was 11.110 kg. Its dimensions are of insignificance when compared with the 13.2x4.2 m. universe. These are pictures that you definitely need to see. A little bit of history ... The Hubble Space Telescope or HST was named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. It is a space telescope, launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and still in operation. At the beginning, Hubble was built by NASA (US space agency) but received contributions from ESA (European Space Agency). The Challenger disaster and technical problems delayed the launch. About Robotics? I click - 6 - Chang'e lunar space program From the name of a Chinese Moon goddess; Following the success of Chang'e 1 and 2, Chang'e 1 is the first phase of the Chinese Chang'e 3 was launched in 2013 from Lunar Exploration Program. Chang'e 1 was Xichang. Chang'e 3 was made of a robotic launched in 2007 from Xichang in China. lander and a rover. This first Chinese rover The mission had to obtain 3D images from was named Yutu which translates as "Jade the Moon's surface. It was supposed to Rabbit", from the name of a Moon goddess's continue for a year, but it was later extended pet. Yutu was the first rover to land on the and the spacecraft was taken out of orbit in Moon since Lunokhod 2, a Soviet rover 2009 and crashed on the Moon later on. Its deployed in 1973.