"Robot Sailors Are Coming to Navy Aircraft Carriers" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2018 9:43 p.m. PST |
"There are few places more busy and stressful than the deck of an aircraft carrier. That's because a carrier is an airport planted on top of a ship. A U.S. Nimitz-class carrier is longer than three football fields, but that's a lot less acreage than even a regional airport on land. Still, a carrier has to be to launch, recover and prep jet aircraft, and do so quickly and efficiently. That means swarms of sailors pushing carts laden with bombs and missiles around a crowded floating airfield. Maybe a robot can help?…."
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| SBminisguy | 17 Aug 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
Could be -- though in addition to the hazards identified -- sea air/salt water corrosion, vibration, crowded busy deck -- they will need to also need to deal with the pitch and roll of the deck in different sea states and a wide range of lighting (night ops, etc.). Probably be solved at some point, I guess. |
| Tango01 | 17 Aug 2018 11:12 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 17 Aug 2018 5:15 p.m. PST |
cheaper to suck a robot through a jet engine than a human airedale. |
| Thresher01 | 18 Aug 2018 1:05 p.m. PST |
I'm not so sure about that, Lion. Sure, there's the human cost, but they apparently don't do too much damage to a spinning engine, at least relative to what a metal robot would do it it. So, there's the engine repair/replacement costs to factor in as well. Gonna need some pretty smart robots to be able to do what a human does on deck, and survive. They're a lot more flexible than the programmed robots. |
| Tango01 | 18 Aug 2018 3:15 p.m. PST |
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| David Manley | 19 Aug 2018 10:21 a.m. PST |
I have been dropping unsubtle hints at our R&D community about robots for naval damage control….. |
| Cacique Caribe | 19 Aug 2018 12:27 p.m. PST |
Yep. I hope they can learn how to swim. Dan |
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