Good evening,

it is the week before the CDR, and a lot of work still to be done. The meeting schedule was tightened to almost daily full crew meetings in order to finalize the conceptual preparation work which has gotten to a pretty detailed level during the past week. The crew is split up into different smaller task groups where each is adressed to different parts of the CESAR robot.

Based on the locomotion testing results we have to redesign the back part of the robot in order to improve mobility on sand terrain as well as on sloping ground. Therefore, it was decided to design the back part of the robot as a separate module in order to maintain easy exchangeability.

Also, the first calculations on the manipulator arm have been made; additionally our crew is currently working out the details on the manipulator arms suspension and the corresponding camera system. We also have begun to develop the RCU ( Remote Control Unit ) for the CESAR.

We also finally made it to update the project blog, so check out the newly added sections describing the overall project task and our robots concept.

Stay tuned for further updates!