Team71 - Space Apps Challenge

Team71| Space Exploration in Your Backyard

Space Exploration in Your Backyard

The work of space exploration (and the societal benefits it brings) permeates every location and facet of society. Your challenge is to create a visual representation of the breadth of the space sector’s influence, showing the network of organizations and locations associated with the work of space exploration.

Connect people via KIBO-RPC by NASA and JAXA

Summary

Our project basically based on KIBO-RPC. There is a robot called Astrobee, whose task is to fulfil a particular mission to save ISS. Anyone can write code in Android Studio with the right documentation for Astrobee made by JAXA. One has to build an Android Application in Android Studio and then download the APK in the robot. By downloading the APK in Astrobee, it can move and do the particular task. In this case logic development is the most mandatory part. But technical knowledge is also very important. One can simulate is via local simulation software.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Like back in 2000, countries around the world thought that they should do something for the future of the world. For these reasons they decided to make the ISS by lunching module one by one in space from various countries. Among all these module KIBO is one of them. Inside of KIBO, there is a robot called Astrobee. Its job is to help the astronauts to use their time properly. Astrobee is a new robot. It can do many kinds of work. It’s very interesting. There is a contest going on named KIBO-RPC (Kibo Robot Programming Challenge). It’s a contest for all participant to use the robot and do a particular task with the shortest time and shortest path. But without being a participant of KIBO-RPC, anyone can explore the local simulation as well as contribute in this contest.

Overview: https://youtu.be/UjPxbtuVQMk

How We Developed This Project

When it comes to share experience of development, I would say this is a great platform for gathering experience as well as implement the previous experience properly. In my case I knew Linux, Ros, Simulation a little. But for this event, I knew a lot about Linux, Simulation and so on. I have come to know that debug and debug is the only way to be successful. There is a new parameter named Quaternion in Space which is really interesting. All space rotation is taking action with this parameter Quaternion. I think it will be really interesting for all of the interested people. In our case, we have implemented some of our system with TELEOP tool.

Thus we can easily access the trajectory path.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used Nasa's Teleop Tool in our project to utilize the trajectory path more correctly. In KIBO Module the robot astrobee moves in a certain direction. But we can easily control it via our guest science application. From JAXA's resources we have used the GDS as well as simulation environment. Thus we have used NASA and JAXA's data.

Project Demo

To ensure mass people feel interest, we make it ensure that any one can join use the local simulation. When people find it visual, they feel interest in the platform. We have implemented ROS, python, Android Studio and other resources to make it simpler. With our documentation any one can easily install the ROS environment as well as install RVIZ. RviZ and Gaziboo are the main tools for the built. With Rviz anyone can visualize the project. Any one can modify the code and make simple apk to run the robot, ASTROBEE. In this case, GDS is the main part of it. With GDS, one can make proper connection between earth and ISS.