FLOSS Weekly 119

FLOSS Weekly Episode 119

Guest(s)

• Scott Maxwell, NASA/JPL Mars Rover Driver Team Lead
  • http://twitter.com/marsroverdriver
  • http://is.gd/aIwqD
  • MarsAndMe.blogspot.com
  • MarsRoverDriver.blogspot.com
  • http://www.gnomedex.com/video/scott-maxwell-mars-30

"I've used Free software since I discovered Unix around 1990. I wrote a Linux kernel book (Linux Core Kernel Commentary) in 1999 and use Linux and other Free software extensively -- indeed, almost exclusively -- at home and at work."

• Paolo Bellutta, Mars Rover Driver - JPL/NASA

- I'm one of the MER drivers. Rover Drivers are responsible for moving the rovers and placing the instuments of the ropver arm, called IDD (Intrument Deployment Device) on scientifically interesting targets.

- Prior to working on MER I did machine vision SW development for robotics and medical applications.

- I have been mostly a user of Open Source SW since, well, when that was the only source!

External Links

This link has quite a bit of information on our rovers, mostly on the HW side:

• http://hobbiton.thisside.net/rovermanual/

This one is a paper that describes part of the flight software:

• http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Mark_Maimone/biesiadecki_maimone06.pdf

This is the JPL web site for the MER mission:

• http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Sponsors

Drobo

• Drobo.com/floss
• Drobo #6
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Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
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