Russian cosmonaut Anna Kinina piloted a space robot on "another planet"
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- 19 Jul 2022
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On Saturday, cosmonaut Anna Kikina became a participant in an experiment to control the FEDOR robot at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A Gagarina. This is necessary to develop operator skills that will be useful during a real arrival on the Moon or another planet, where anthropomorphic robots can largely replace a person.
Recall that about a week ago, Anna (the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut corps) flew in from the United States, where training was held for Crew-5 crew members. Kikina will be the first Russian to fly on Elon Musk's SpaceX's Crew Dragon on September 1. This became known for sure only on Friday, when NASA agreed on a cross-flight agreement with Roscosmos. The place of Kikina in our Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will be taken by the American Francisco Rubio. He starts together with Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin on 21 September.
Nevertheless, no one canceled the experiments on Earth either, and on July 16, Anna's turn came to train the control of the anthropomorphic robot SKYBOT F-850 (in the common people - FEDOR), which made a real space flight in August-September 2019.
The experiment is being carried out by the CPC staff with the technical support of the NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika, where, in fact, the robot was created. Kikina's goal in this experiment is to remotely control FEDOR's movements from a distance. At the same time, Anna played the role of an astronaut who had just landed on another planet and was in the descent module, and the robot was her assistant, who was released to the surface with aggressive environmental conditions to perform the assigned tasks. In front of our eyes, the robot was conveniently “located” in the rover’s layout, and Kikina had to control its movements using a manipulation exoskeleton. The experiment was completed successfully, "SKYBOT F-850" demonstrated almost complete obedience to the operator. Read More…
