cozmicray - 2/4/2008 1:24 PMIf developers of Space station hardware would include standard robotic repair fittingsthe Mr Dextre could work on them.
DMeader - 2/4/2008 6:21 PMQuoteA_M_Swallow - 31/3/2008 10:09 PMSounds like someone forgot to include pliers in Dextre's tool kit.I have pliers in my toolkit, but I wouldn't use them to tie my shoes. The manipulators on Dextre were designed to grip specific things, just like my pliers were not meant to grip shoelaces.
A_M_Swallow - 31/3/2008 10:09 PMSounds like someone forgot to include pliers in Dextre's tool kit.
A_M_Swallow - 2/4/2008 9:03 PMQuoteDMeader - 2/4/2008 6:21 PMQuoteA_M_Swallow - 31/3/2008 10:09 PMSounds like someone forgot to include pliers in Dextre's tool kit.I have pliers in my toolkit, but I wouldn't use them to tie my shoes. The manipulators on Dextre were designed to grip specific things, just like my pliers were not meant to grip shoelaces.You would use your hands to tie your shoes. Hands were not designed to tie shoes but they can do it.
Joffan - 2/4/2008 8:37 PMMostly what Dextre needs though for true Canadian repair capability is a duct tape dispenser. Got any of those in your odd tools set, MDA?
robertross - 9/5/2008 10:05 PMFor what Dextre can do on the ISS, as long as it has it's purpose-built grapple points (smaller than PDGFs), it can latch on. It may not be able to replace the batteries, but I'm sure it will be a welcome addition to a SARJ repair.
catfry - 31/3/2008 9:10 PMThis thing with walking end over end with Dextre attached.. Does that mean the combine could be operated with Dextre attached to Station, Canadarm attached to Dextre, and the free end moving structure or EVA'er around. Structurally would the combine be able to handle the same loads as in non Dextre mode? I can't thing of any reason you would want to do this but now I'm curious.
tankmodeler - 13/5/2008 3:08 PMRegarding gripping insulation blankets, well, no, there isn't a real ability to do that with enough certainty to call it a "capability". Sure you could grab at a loose piece of blanket, but you wouldn't be able to really tell what you were doing or be sure how or where you had grabbed it. Pretty useless from an operational point of view. If you "just" wanted to poke a loose end back in place for some really important reason, it might be possible to jury rig a rod of material or a tool with a micrograpple fixture and have the SPDM do that, but it's definitely a contingency type operation and you couldn't expect a lot of satisfaction from the job. Besides, by the time you have done an EVA to get the tool out to the SPDM, it's probably better to put that same astronaut out on the SSRMS to do the job. He/She will be much better at it.
A_M_Swallow - 15/5/2008 4:17 AMCan new tools for Dexte's tool kit be transferred by simply leaving them in an airlock and picking them up using say the SSRMS?This would save an EVA.
synchrotron - 14/5/2008 7:00 AMThermal blanket handling tools have been tested under teleoperation to an R&D level with the SPDM-GT. Dexterity-wise, they are more effective than EVA gloves. An astronaut would need a tool with similar tip characteristics to perform the same task.
A_M_Swallow - 14/5/2008 11:17 PMCan new tools for Dexte's tool kit be transferred by simply leaving them in an airlock and picking them up using say the SSRMS?This would save an EVA.