 |
| T-ReX tension calibration |
We're developing a new version of our climbing robot called T-ReX (Tethered Robot eXplorer). The plan is to deploy it in a canyon in a newly discovered crater on Victoria Island in the Arctic in the summer of 2015. The mission will be to teleoperate the robot and build a 3D model of the stratigraphy of the crater that has been exposed in the canyon. We've completed the mechanical design and here are calibrating the tension sensor so that we can start to implement tension-based control for ascent/descent on near-vertical surfaces. We'll be deploying the robot on the exterior of our MarsDome to emulate the canyon wall in the near future.
