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| | ERA Home Page |
 | | The Extra-Vehicular Activity Robotic Assistant (ERA) is a wheeled robot used as a test bed for research into the requirements for successful collaboration between suited astronauts and autonomous robots. |
 | | The EVA Robotic Assistant is equipped with many sensors, including GPS, stereo vision for obstacle avoidance and path planning/navigation, stereo vision for astronaut tracking, laser scanning range-finder, 6-axis accelerometer, compass, and inclinometers. |
 | | The processing is all done on-board on four PC/104 Pentium II computers using the Linux operating system, and using the CORBA standard for inter-process communication. |
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