Meteron Multi-purpose End To End Robotic Operations Network

28/04/2016

Want to follow us live ? Check the details of tomorrow's live transmission in the link below..😊

Tweet Tomorrow, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will drive a rover named Bridget in the UK from the International Space Station, as part of ESA's Meteron umbrella project that is preparing for future human-robotic missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. In this blog post, we'll review the basic facts of what…

27/04/2016

2 more days to go !

In a live space-to-ground test of human–robot cooperation, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will control a rover on Earth on Friday from the International Space Station, helping prepare for future exploration missions.

27/04/2016

Who is playing Tim Peake today ? Very nice article in the ESA Principia blog about what our teams and our Tim are about to do. What a fabulous illustration at the beginning !

ESA astronaut Tim Peake in space is set to drive a rover in a simulated Mars landscape in Stevenage, UK, this Friday. Flight Operator Koen Struyven from the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre (some of the guys and girls that run ESA’s experiments in space) sends us an update on preparations:…

27/04/2016

Our next experiment is on for this coming Friday !!! And it may be even live...Stay tuned ! Here below is a great article on the UK Principia blog about what we do and why. Check it out !

METERON: SUPVIS-M and SUPVIS-E Controlling rovers on planetary surfaces from an orbiting spacecraft Future Mars missions are likely to involve astronauts orbiting the planet and controlling or supervising rovers on its surface. This will cut out the time delay experienced when controlling rovers fro…

17/03/2016

We. Are. Thrilled ! Can't wait for more action ! 😊 Despite today's issues, Tim was super efficient, pacing his way through the robotic elements control interface...and already offering us his insight on how to improve further ! In view are (from near to far) : the prime laptop for command and control, the video display laptop (6 simultaneous streams, no less), Tim's support computer here displaying his procedures.

Excited to be commanding my first rover from space!

17/03/2016

If you were able to follow our operations you certainly felt we had a quite rough time today, with our main robotic element not cooperative at all. We will soon write a blog entry to explain the test's purpose and why, despite the outcome of the day, we actually do not feel sad but getting ready for a re-match 😉

Welcome to Meteron As robots can go to places that are dangerous or even impossible for humans to reach, we can use them to do things that we would not do. Yet having people close enough to enable real-time control would make operations much smoother than from afar...

15/03/2016

In a few days, and then a month later, Tim Peake will help us understand better the limits in human-robotic cooperative operations ! We are definitely excited ! Read the story on the Principia Mission blog 😊

I have always been fascinated by remote-controlled vehicles. Like many kids I looked in amazement at remote-controlled cars and boats in the park and was eager to have a go whenever I could. As a young teenager I loved building, flight-testing and all–too-often crashing my radio-controlled aircr…

25/02/2016

Keep yourself updated on Meteron news by keeping an eye on the blog - Tales of Meteron

Tweet A lunar adventure is rising over Europe’s exploration horizon. ESA is teaming up with international partners to return humans to Earth’s natural satellite by the end of the next decade. Moving away from one-shot orbital missions, bold ambitions foresee humans exploring the polar regions hand-i…

16/06/2015

With help from astronauts Frank De Winne and Jean-François Clervoy we are coming closer to understanding the needs of the end users of our rover's user interface. Read about it on our blog!

Tweet A crucial part of controlling a rover is interacting with its user interface. The interface should provide the operator with all the information and controls necessary to perform the tasks that lie ahead. What that information actually encompasses is not always obvious however, and the questio…

05/06/2015

Throw back: Experiment with Eurobot in Rio Tinto in 2011. Photo: Cristian Englert