Deploying the Robot Application Programming Interface Delegate via second-generation IP-over-DTN
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Tsao, Philip; Torres, Jay; Schoolcraft, Joshua; Mittman, David
- Source
- 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference Aerospace Conference, 2013 IEEE. :1-5 Mar, 2013
- Subject
- Aerospace
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Transportation
Signal Processing and Analysis
Logic gates
Telerobotics
Switches
World Wide Web
Lead
- Language
- ISSN
- 1095-323X
The Robot Application Programmer Interface Delegate (RAPID) is a pipeline designed for telerobotic operations in the Human Exploration Technology (HET) Program. As human spaceflight missions become more ambitious and far reaching (for example, long duration operations on board ISS or around near-Earth asteroids), traditional telerobotic technology becomes expensive, unwieldy and difficult to scale. We present a RAPID deployment architecture that leverages the advantages of COTS internetworking infrastructure while enjoying many of the benefits of space-optimized Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) technology. DTNTAP is a multi-platform second-generation IP over DTN implementation with performance and usability improvements over its predecessor. Selected results from functional and performance tests are presented and new capabilities are described.