According to Deputy Chief of Scientific Management Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yury Gagarin Oleg Gordienko, currently at the center pass a practical test of the Russian android SAR-400, designed to perform certain types of work on the International Space Station and beyond. Conducted testing of technological operations on a full-size mock-defunct station “Mir” simulator “Exit-2».
Works in space is always fraught with risk to life because of the risk of damage suit astronaut negligent act or small meteorites, besides it’s costly procedure in terms of the operation of the plant. Maybe in the future human presence in space will be optional, but so far it is only the introduction of robots to perform simple, but dangerous to the person performing remote operations, such as docking of spacecraft, including the Earth, or a visual inspection station for damage and elimination.
SAR-400 – is torsovy anthropomorphic robot, its main unit for interaction with the surrounding objects are the limbs in the form of hands, allowing him to use tools made for man. Android devoid of similarity intelligence and management is fully charged pilots. It accurately reproduces all the movements of the operator, giving it an image, sound, and even tactile sensations. The creators claim that the robot can be done at a distance and do not require high skills of the operator. It can also be programmed for autonomous execution of routine operations.
DesignedNGO “android Technique” by order of Roscosmos SAR-400 has a mass of 144 kg and can handle objects weighing up to 10 kg. Sending the ISS will take place over the next two years. In the future we plan to use the robot missions to the Moon and Mars. In the latter case, obviously, require a higher level of automation.
«Robonavt-2″, created by NASA and General Motors
on the international space station in February 2011 operated by the same American robot “Robonavt-2″, and from March 2008 – bulky “Dextre”, which became Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station and is part of the Mobile Servicing System, along with a manipulator “Canadarm- 2 “, was commissioned in 2001.
Canadian “Dextre»
All these are the first steps on the road to space robotics, designed to reduce the cost of space research programs and commercial projects to empower people in extreme conditions of vacuum and gravity, as well as open the prospect of building in outer space and on celestial bodies without direct human intervention.
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