PolAres AoudaOBDH Workshop

12. April 2008

On the 12th of April the OBDH-AOUDA-Team met for a workshop in Munich. Klaus Bickert, Gernot Grömer, Hannes Mayer, Harald Fauland and Markus Wöhrenschimmel were present to examine the actual status of AUODA’s On-Board-Data-Handling- Component (OBDH) and to define tasks for the OBDH-team for the next two months

Klaus Bickert provided with accommodation and technical infrastructure, like beamer and LAN. Thanks to Klaus Bickert for the prefect scheduling and organization. The presentation of the constructive architecture of OBDH followed up the survey and ‘first touch’ of several hardware components ‘hunted’ by Klaus Bickert. These will produce, handle and present the data of the AUODA-Suite in the future. Among these components the CO2 Sensor by courtesy of Dräger, which will be adopted to control chemical parameters of respiration. Thereafter a discussion about the supply with electrical energy showed, that most of energy will be consumed by the cooling system. In the afternoon Harald Fauland presented several alternatives for communication between the AUODA-Suit and outside units (e.g. rover, mission control). A decision had to be arrived, which of these will be applied for field tests during the next months. In union the team decided to use a system on the basis of W-LAN-protocol. Low complexity, high availability of WLAN-hardware and relative low costs made case for the use of WLAN-protocol. The requirement of intervisibility between clients and the W-LAN-Hotspot has to be solved. Some ideas like fastening the Hotspot on a balloon or a model-helicopter where discussed. In the first instance installing the Hotspot on a topographical bank will meet that requirement. Finally Gernot Grömer presented some financial facts concerning OBDH (e.g. how much money was already spent) and several tasks where assigned to the OBDH-team-members. The workshop was a very productive und successful event - so workshops in that manner are planned in the next future to fulfil the enormous fascinating challenge to fly man to the mars.

Aouda workshop participants while discussing and testing.