BANGALORE: Google’s Smartphone with 3D sensing capabilities will be used by NASA to power its ball shaped robots on the International space station. These Smartphones used by NASA are a part of the Google’s Project Tango initiative and will be on the cargo Spacecraft, which is to be launched on July 11, reports Reuters.
Apparently, NASA plans to use these Smartphones to boost up its Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES capabilities and with an aim that they could take over the chores of the astronauts or handle the complex functions outside the vessel.
The Google Smartphones used by NASA come with a motion sensing camera and an infrared depth sensor. These sensors can detect angles inside the space station and create a 3D map which helps the SPHERES to steer the robots from one module to another.
When NASA launched the SPHERES for the first time to the Space station, it could only click images and could do nothing more than that. Engineers at the NASA’s research centre were searching for a solution to make these devices smarter and landed with the answer of the Google’s experimental Smartphones.
“We wanted to add communication, a camera, increase the processing capability, accelerometers and other sensors. As we were scratching our heads thinking about what to do, we realized the answer was in our hands,” said Chris Provencher, Smart SPHERES project manager. "Let's just use smartphones," he added.
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