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Thursday, September 28, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Engineers help design robot for space station
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
Arms reach out toward two wooden blocks. One arm picks up a block and carefully sets it on edge. The other arm reaches out and tentatively sets the second block on top of the first. Nothing out of the ordinary — except that both arms belong to a robot
The KU department of mechanical engineering joined the push to build a U.S. manned space station with the arrival of this advanced robot on Tuesday. Researchers at the department will use it as a test bed for building the next generation of workers in space.
The robot, donated by Kraft Telerobotics Inc. of Lenexa, is called a teelerobot, said Bill G. Barr, professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of the project. It can extend an operator's presence into hostile environments better than was before possible.
"What we have in terms of capability bolts down to what many would want," said Steve Harber, the world, "说 Steve Harber，the director of product development for Kraft.
"Only one university in the world has that, and that's KU." he said.
Terry N. Faddis, associate professor of mechanical engineering and the other co-director, the project is managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation and Kraft
Barr said that a standard robot had to be pre-programmed to perform a series of operations. A telerobot, on the other hand, is designed to mimic the behavior of its operator, who uses a set of arm-like controls. The robot's arms will move in the same way as the operator.
Thus, a telerobot operator can perform operations in dangerous areas without putting himself at risk, he said.
Kraft's telerobot is unique, Barr said, because it feeds back a response to the operator as the robot arms encounter resistance. The University's major contribution to the project will be augmenting the capabilities of the robot through research.
Currently, the robot has no sense of touch; it would be very easy for the robot to crush an egg by trying to pick it up, because the operator couldn't tell how hard he would grasp with the controls. Barr and Faddis want to add a sense of touch to the robot.
During the second phase of the project, they would like to give the robot the ability to learn and repeat a series of actions. Barr said.
The robot was installed Tuesday morning in its new home, 113 Nichols Hall. Barr said that many of the modifications and projects would be done by graduate students and that he thought this would be a wonderful opportunity for them.
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Rob Haberlein of Lawrence practices with the new telerobot.
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