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NNJ14TA10C - CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLE COCKPIT PROTOTYPING PAHSE FOUR NASA IS DEVELOPING A NEW SPACECRAFT, THE ORION MPCV. AANA WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR INTEGRATING ORION MPCV DISPLAY AND CONTROL CONCEPT IDEAS INTO A SET OF ORION MPCV COCKPIT SIMULATORS. AANA HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE FLIGHT TEST BRANCH AND THE ASTRONAUT OFFICE FOR 14 YEARS. THEY BEGAN WITH THE CREATION OF PROTOTYPE DISPLAYS AND CONTROLS FOR THE CRV COCKPIT. THIS WORK ALSO INCLUDED THE CREATION OF A REMOTE COCKPIT FOR THE X-38. THE COCKPIT WAS BUILT INTO A 15 PASSENGER VAN AND POSITIONED ON THE GROUND AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE WHERE REAL-TIME DATA AND VIDEO WERE FED INTO THE COCKPIT TO CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT OF BEING ON BOARD THE X-38 DURING A FLIGHT TEST. AANA PARTICIPATED IN THE DISPLAY AND CONTROL SOFTWARE DESIGN, BUILD-UP, AND FLIGHT TESTING OF THIS COCKPIT. UNDER THE CCPP1C, AANA PROVIDED TECHNICAL SUPPORT BY DESIGNING A CEV COCKPIT LAYOUT SIMULATOR AND A CEV DISPLAY SIMULATOR. DURING THE CCPP2C, AANA COMPLETED DEVELOPMENT OF A C++/GRAPHICS LIBRARY (GL) STUDIO ORION COCKPIT PROTOTYPING ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING DISPLAY LOGIC AND GRAPHICS CODE SEPARATION, AS WELL AS A REUSABLE OBJECT ORIENTED LIBRARY OF GRAPHICAL COMPONENTS. THIS SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT WAS COMPLETELY DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED OVER A 3-YEAR TIMEFRAME BY AANA. AANA S ABILITY TO USE THE ENVIRONMENT THEY DESIGNED TO QUICKLY CREATE ANIMATED PROTOTYPE DISPLAYS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED PROCEDURES IS CRITICAL TO NASA, AS OVER 86 DISPLAYS HAVE TO BE DESIGNED, UPDATED, AND VALIDATED OVER A 2-YEAR TIMEFRAME. DISPLAY DESIGN AND VALIDATION INCLUDES THE INITIAL DISPLAY CONCEPT IMPLEMENTATION, BUT ALSO INCLUDES CHANGES TO BE MADE TO THE DISPLAY BASED ON EVALUATION RESULTS. AANA IS ABLE TO GENERATE A TYPICAL SYSTEM DISPLAY PROTOTYPE IN LESS THAN 3 DAYS, WHILE MARKET RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THE AVIONICS INDUSTRY STANDARD IS OVER 3 WEEKS. AANA COCKPIT PROTOTYPING ENGINEERS ALSO DESIGNED A VERY FLEXIBLE SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC PROCEDURE SIMULATOR, WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO IMPLEMENT EACH PROCEDURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED SCENARIO IN LESS THAN A DAY. SINCE MODIFICATIONS CAN BE MADE QUICKLY BY AANA, THE IMPACT OF ANY INTERFACE REDESIGN IS MINIMIZED ENABLING MORE FLEXIBILITY TO DESIGN THE OPTIMAL INTERFACE FOR ORION.
IDC - 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
Contractor
AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS NORTH AMERICA INC.
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Johnson Space Center
Effective date
05/20/2014
Obligated Amount
$2.2M
NNJ13TA03B - MULTI-PURPOSE CREW VEHICLE PROGRAM INTEGRATION CONTRACT (MPIC) THIS STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) DESCRIBES THE FUNCTIONS TO BE PERFORMED BY THE CONTRACTOR IN ORDER TO PROVIDE SPACECRAFT COCKPIT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO THE ORION MULTI-PURPOSE CREW VEHICLE (MPCV) COCKPIT TEAM. THIS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT EXPLORES NEW HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COCKPIT OF THE MPCV, IN ORDER FOR THE CREW TO EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY PERFORM MISSION OPERATIONS ON THIS NEW SPACE VEHICLE. FOR JSC ONSITE ACTIVITIES, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL ADHERE TO THE JSC QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. CONTRACT PERSONNEL WORKING ONSITE AT JSC WILL IMPLEMENT THEIR SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM BY PARTICIPATING IN THE SAFETY AND HEALTH PROCESSES OF COGNIZANT NASA ORGANIZATIONS AS NEEDED TO PERFORM THEIR CONTRACTUAL TASKS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DEFINING MPCV COCKPIT LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, INTEGRATE, AND DELIVER MPCV PROTOTYPE COCKPIT SOFTWARE TO HELP DETERMINE THE COCKPIT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES NEEDED, AS WELL AS THEIR LOCATION IN THE VEHICLE BASED ON THE TASK ORDER. THE PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE SHALL INCLUDE INTERFACES TO HARDWARE DEVICES CAPABLE OF SIMULATING VARIOUS COCKPIT CONTROL CONFIGURATIONS, INCLUDING ASCENT AND REENTRY RESTRAINED OPERATIONS AND ON-ORBIT PANEL OPERATIONS. TO HELP IDENTIFY COCKPIT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE INTEGRATION NEEDS, THE CONTRACTOR MAY USE ASTRONAUT INTERVIEWS, PROJECT ENGINEER INTERVIEWS, SPACE VEHICLE INFORMATION, AIRCRAFT/SPACECRAFT COCKPIT TECHNOLOGY AND MPCV MISSION DATA. IN ORDER TO VALIDATE COCKPIT LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS, THE PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE SHALL INCLUDE DISPLAY NAVIGATION IN VARIOUS FLIGHT PHASES, CURSOR CONTROL MOVEMENT WITHIN DISPLAY FORMAT, VEHICLE COMMANDING FROM DISPLAY FORMAT, ATTITUDE CONTROL INPUTS FOR TRAJECTORY CONTROL, AND ELECTRONIC PROCEDURES NAVIGATION AND EXECUTION. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL LEVERAGE DISPLAY PROTOTYPING WORK FROM MPCV COCKPIT PHASES 1, 2 AND 3 AND INTEGRATE LESSONS LEARNED FROM X38/CRV HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS THE ADVANCED COCKPIT EVALUATION SYSTEM AND SENSOR FUSION PROJECT. TASKS UNDER THIS CONTRACT SHALL CONTINUE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS PERFORMED DURING MPCV COCKPIT PHASES 1, 2 AND 3. AS SPECIFIED BY TASK ORDER, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PREPARE AND SUBMIT PERIODIC MPCV COCKPIT PROTOTYPING STATUS REPORTS AND DELIVER PERIODIC UPDATES OF MPCV PROTOTYPE COCKPIT SOFTWARE AND THE APPLICABLE USER S MANUAL.
IDC - 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
Contractor
Ares Corporation (ARES TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Johnson Space Center
Effective date
02/11/2013
Obligated Amount
$36M
NNX12AQ99G - COMPOSING WHOLE-BODY TASK PRIMITIVES INTO PROVABLY STABLE BEHAVIORS. DARPA S ROBOTICS CHALLENGE (DRC) POSES ENORMOUS CHALLENGES IN CONTROL, SENSING, EMBEDDED COMPUTING, PREDICTION, DECISION MAKING, INFORMATION EXCHANGE, MOTION PLANNING AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MECHATRONICS. THE HUMAN CENTERED ROBOTICS LAB AT UT AUSTIN, WILL PROVIDE SEVERAL CUTTING EDGE TOOLS THAT WILL ENABLE NASA S DRC HUMANOID TO EXECUTE THE BEHAVIORS SOUGHT FOR THE COMPETITION WITH THE AIM TO WIN IT. THESE TECHNOLOGIES ARE ALREADY MATURE TO BE DEPLOYED IN MODERN HUMANOIDS. THE FIRST TOOL IS THE WHOLE-BODY CONTROL SOFTWARE, A REALTIME ABSTRACTION LAYER THAT ALLOWS USERS TO CREATE SENSOR-BASED MOTION SKILLS AT RUNTIME TO GOVERN THE VARIOUS LIMBS OF THE ROBOT, THE MULTICONTACT FORCES AND ITS POSTURAL BEHAVIOR. IN PARTICULAR, WHOLE-BODY CONTROL OPERATES AT THE TORQUE CONTROL LEVEL, ENABLING ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH MULTICONTACT COMPLIANT INTERACTIONS. THE SECOND TOOL THAT UT AUSTIN WILL PROVIDE IS A MOTION PLANNER FOR FEET PLACEMENT IN VERY ROUGH TERRAINS. THE DYNAMICS OF LOCOMOTION IN ROUGH TERRAINS ARE NONLINEAR AND OF A MULTIVARIATE NATURE, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO SOLVE AS A CLOSED FORM PROBLEM. UT AUSTIN, HAS DEVELOPED NUMERICAL METHOD TO FIND SAGITTAL AND LATERAL FEET PLACEMENT AS WELL AS TENSION FORCE POLICIES TO QUICKLY MANEUVER AND WALK IN THE ROUGH TERRAINS. WE WILL ALSO EXTEND THESE TECHNIQUES TO STUDY STABILITY OF MULTICONTACT BEHAVIORS INVOLVING MANIPULATION WHILE STANDING UP. THE FINAL TOOL THAT UT AUSTIN WILL BE PROVIDING IS A COMPACT SERIES ELASTIC ELECTRICAL ACTUATOR WITH VERY HIGH POWER TO WEIGHT RATIO AND HIGH EFFICIENCY. THIS ACTUATOR IS IDEAL TO BE USED IN THE DESIGN OF A LEGGED MECHANISM. TO IMPLEMENT THESE TOOLS, UT AUSTIN WILL LEVERAGE ITS CURRENT TEAM AND ADD A FEW NEW DEVELOPMENT RESEARCHERS THAT WILL ENABLE A FAST DEPLOYMENT CYCLE. CURRENT PERSONNEL AT UT AUSTIN CONSISTS OF 5 PHD STUDENTS WORKING ON THE AREAS OF ACTUATOR DESIGN, EMBEDDED SKILLS USING THE DREAMER/MEKA HUMANOID, ROUGH TERRAIN FOOT PLACEMENT PLANNING, CODE IMPLEMENTATION ON THE HUME BIPED ROBOT, AND ROBUST CONTROL AND MACHINE LEARNING. IN ADDITION TO THE CURRENT TEAM, UT AUSTIN IS HIRING POSTDOC INDIVIDUALS TO QUICKLY DEPLOY THE CURRENT TOOLS DEVELOPED IN THE LAB. IN PARTICULAR, UT AUSTIN WILL IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGH EXPERTISE IN THE AREAS OF SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT, MOTION PLANNING AND SENSING, AND CONTROL THEORY. THE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE LAB WILL CONSIST ON A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UT AUSTIN S PI, LUIS SENTIS AND HIS POSTDOCS WITH NASA JSC PERSONNEL FOR SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT, DEPLOYMENT AND TESTING. THE POSTDOCS WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE LAB S PHD STUDENTS AND JSC PERSONNEL TO PORT THEIR ALGORITHMS TO THE MAIN DRC SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE. THE CONTROL SOLUTIONS WILL BE TESTED IN A DYNAMIC SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPED BY THE LAB AS WELL AS IN THE MEKA AND HUME HUMANOID ROBOTS. THIS IMPLEMENTATION WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO STUDY THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE CONTROLLERS WHILE THE NASA DRC HUMANOID IS BEING DESIGNED. AFTER THE NASA DRC HUMANOID IS FINALIZED, THE POSTDOCS AND PI WILL HELP TO DEPLOY THE ALGORITHMS IN THE FINAL ROBOT. UT AUSTIN WILL MAINTAIN A 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT IN HOUSTON WHERE THERE WILL BE 2 RESEARCH INDIVIDUALS AT ALL TIMES. THE PI WILL BE ON SITE EVERY OTHER WEEK FOR SEVERAL DAYS TO PARTICIPATE ON DISCUSSIONS WITH NASA AND OVERSEE THE DEVELOPMENTS OF HIS PERSONNEL. UT AUSTIN WILL SPEND A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF EFFORT PORTING CURRENTLY EXISTING CODE INTO DEPLOYABLE SOFTWARE. TO DO SO, WE WILL PRODUCE A SERIES OF LIGHTWEIGHT LIBRARIES DESIGNED TO BE INTEGRATED IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SUCH AS ROS. IN PARTICULAR, UT AUSTIN WILL PRODUCE THE FOLLOWING: (A) A LIBRARY OF WHOLE-BODY DYNAMIC MULTICONTACT SKILLS THAT WILL ENABLE TO DEFINE TASK PRIMITIVES, CONTROL POLICIES, AND SEQUENCING OF ACTIONS TO CONTROL THE HUMANOID IN THE ENVIRONMENT, (B) A LIBRARY ON REALTIME ROUGH TERRAIN FEET PLACEMENT PLANNING THAT WILL CALCULATE ADAPTIVE, SENSOR-BAS
Grant for Research
Contractor
University of Texas System (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
09/25/2012
Obligated Amount
$153k
NNJ08HD09A - TELE-OPERATION AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS GRADING WITH MULTI-TERRAIN LOADER AS A LUNAR OPERATIONS TESTBED. THIS EQUIPMENT WILL BE A PLATFORM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUNAR SURFACE CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES TO ADDRESS OPERATIONS AND IN-SITU-RESOURCE UTILIZATION (ISRU) NEEDS OF THE EXPLORATION SYSTEMS MISSION DIRECTORATE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL BE CENTERED ON THE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMNET AND DEMONSTRATION OF REMOTE SITE LEVELING AND GRADING FUNCTIONS. THESE FUNCTIONS WILL INVOLVE A REMOTE HUMAN OPERATOR SUPERVISING A WORK MACHINE THAT IS GRADING A SURFACE TO MATCH A PRE-PROGRAMMED SITE MAP. THE PROGRAM WILL DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE THESE FUNCTIONS USING A CATERPILLAR 287C MULTI-TERRAIN LOADER (MTL) OUTFITTED WITH SENSORS AND CONFIGURED UNDER ANOTHER CONTRACT FOR REMOTE OPERATIONS. THERE ARE THREE KEY STEPS IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT. THE FIRST WILL BE ADAPTATION, MODEL DEVELOPMENT, AND TUNING OF EXISTING CATERPILLAR INTELLECTURAL PROPERTY AND THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE TO RUN ON THE CURRENT MTL PLATFORMS DEVELOPED BY NASA. THE SECOND KEY STEP WILL BE TO SET-UP AND DEMONSTRATE THIS FUNCTIONALITY AT JSC. THE THIRD KEY STEP WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUILDING BLOCK ALGORITHMS THAT COULD BE USED TO ADD ADDITIONAL AUTOMATED FEATURES IN A POTENTIAL FOLLOW-ON PROJECT. NASA HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THE APPLICATION OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR OVER 40 YEARS. FROM DISTANT OPERATIONS TO GROUND-BASED HANDLING OF DELICATE PAYLOADS, NASA S CORE MISSION HAS CRITICAL NEEDS FOR TECHNOLOGIES WHICH CAN OPERATE EFFECTIVELY IN REGIONS UNDESIRABLE OR DANGEROUS FOR HUMANS. A KEY CONTINUING NEED IS FOR SYSTEMS WHICH CAN SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE AND MANIPULATE SENSORS AND/OR PAYLOADS IN COMPLEX AND UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS. THE RESULT OF THIS COLLABORATION WILL BE A RELIABLE PLATFORM TO DEVELOP CONTROL ALGORITHMS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING CONSTRUCTION CLASS MACHINES FOR EARTH-MOVING AND REGOLITH-MOVING TASKS. CONSEQUENTLY, THE TEAMS DEVELOPING AND DESIGNING LUNAR MOBILITY AND CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT WILL BE ABLE TO INCORPORATE THE LESSONS-LEARNED FROM THE MACHINE TESTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM. LEVERAGING FROM PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO DRIVE MACHINES REMOTELY, THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM S PRIMARY FOCUS AND CHALLENGE WILL BE HOW TO CONTROL THE MACHINE WHILE PERFORMING TASKS THAT INVOLVE INTERACTING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER EQUIPMENT. THESE TASKS INCLUDE GRADING, LEVELING, BERMING, TRENCHING, STRIP-MINING, BORING, ASSET COVERING, HAUL-CARRY-DUMP, EXCAVATING, ASSET DEPLOYMENT AND RELOCATION, AND CONSTRUCTION. DOING THESE TASKS EFFICIENTLY BY TELEOPERATION, ESPECIALLY OVER A TIME DELAY, HAS YET TO BE CONQUERED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OR ROBOTIC COMMUNITY. THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS APPLICATIONS IN NUMEROUS NASA MISSIONS, AS WELL AS IN MANY SIGNIFICANT TERRESTRIAL SITUATIONS OF CURRENT CONCERN, INCLUDING MILITARY, INDUSTRIAL, AND HOMELAND SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS. ULTIMATELY, THIS PROJECT WILL INFLUENCE THE NATURE OF ROBOTICS THROUGHOUT GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, AND EDUCATION.
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
Caterpillar, Inc (CATERPILLAR INC.)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Johnson Space Center
Effective date
07/23/2008
Obligated Amount
$250k

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