ARTEMIS

10/10/2015

By Peter Kimball

Vickie, John, Kristof, Chris, and Bill inspect ARTEMIS. (photo: Peter Kimball)

We opened up the ARTEMIS crate today and and performed a visual inspection of the robot. All in all, ARTEMIS seems to have traveled very well (thanks to all the cargo folks here and in the US!). We learned about a few issues that we'll need to address before ARTEMIS goes in the water, and we also got a feel for what things we might be able to access for testing while ARTEMIS is in its temporary home in the SPOT shop. Speaking of SPOT, we owe that team enormous thanks for letting us store and access ARTEMIS in their shop until the bot house is completed at our field site - they have been very gracious to us.

Bill, John, and Kristof consider options for accessing ARTEMIS sensors for pre-dive testing. (photo: Peter Kimball)

John looks for anything amiss on the underside of ARTEMIS. (photo: Peter Kimball)

ARTEMIS sits warm and dry in the SPOT shop until the bot house is constructed at our field site. (photo: Peter Kimball)

3 Comments

Maria

10/9/2015 05:24:11 pm

nice to see the team at work.

Pamela

10/10/2015 04:01:45 am

Getting ARTEMIS from our shop in Del Valle to Antarctica was quite the task! Thanks to all who helped along the way!! Glad to see she got there and everything looks good!!

Vickie

10/12/2015 05:28:21 pm

It's not a she!!!

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This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

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Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

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