{"id":1967,"date":"2011-06-07T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:16","slug":"new-sample-return-robot-challenge-detailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/06\/07\/new-sample-return-robot-challenge-detailed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sample Return Robot Challenge Detailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/1858\/1\">The Space Review<\/a><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/mailview.custombriefings.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2011060701asee&#038;r=3688478-dc15\">ASEE First Bell<\/a> (June 7, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>In an article for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/1858\/1\">Space Review<\/a> (6\/6), Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace wrote about the new NASA-funded Centennial Challenge called the Sample Return Robot Challenge, asking participants to design &#8220;a fully autonomous robot&#8230;to venture around a course collecting pre-defined samples and bringing them back to a platform.&#8221; Teams will only have limited information about the course before the completion. Brockert is concerned that teams &#8220;must provide a full printout of their robot code along with a schematic of all electrical components&#8221; as this could have a &#8220;chilling effect&#8221; on competitors. Brockert is also worried that environmental conditions are not specified. To him, &#8220;time will tell whether the eventual rule set will drive innovation and a variety of approaches, like the regolith excavation challenge, or set up a problem so difficult no one will win, as in the regolith oxygen and strong tether challenges.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Space Review via ASEE First Bell (June 7, 2011) In an article for the Space Review (6\/6), Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace wrote about the new NASA-funded Centennial Challenge called the Sample Return Robot Challenge, asking participants to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/06\/07\/new-sample-return-robot-challenge-detailed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}