Scientists will launch the CIMON-2 assistant robot (short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) on the ISS.First version of the device
The robot's body is stored on the space station withthe departure of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano in February 2020. The robot will launch again during the upcoming mission of German astronaut Matthias Maurer, who will arrive on the ISS with the SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon mission in October 2020.
For a year and a half since completionOn the last mission, engineers worked to improve CIMON's connectivity to Earth so that it could provide more seamless services to astronauts, CIMON project manager Till Eisenberg of Airbus, which developed the intelligent robot in partnership with DLR German Aerospace Center and LMU Munich, told Space.com.
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“The robot body is only a frontend.Voice recognition and artificial intelligence work on Earth at the IBM data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The signal from CIMON must travel through satellites and ground stations to and from the data center. We focused on improving the reliability of this connection to prevent failures, ”the researchers noted.
CIMON works with softwareIBM Watson for speech recognition and synthesis to communicate with astronauts and respond to their commands. The first generation robot traveled to the space station with Alexander Hirst in 2018. Later, this robot returned to Earth and is now exhibited in German museums. The new second-generation robot responds better to the emotional state of astronauts thanks to the tone analyzer.
“At the first stages of development, we had a delayabout ten seconds, which was not very convenient, the researchers noted. “Through improved software architecture, we were able to reduce response times to two seconds.”
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