JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Kajima Construction Co., Ltd., a major general contractor, conducted an experiment to remotely control a construction machine located about 1000 km away.
In the future, we are experimenting with the aim of creating a base on the moon, and we are planning to try remote control at a further distance in the future.
JAXA and Kajima have been researching remote-controlled construction methods for the future with the aim of building a base on the moon for five years, and on the 18th, they reported the results of the experiment in March at an online press conference. ..
In this experiment, a heavy machine for civil engineering work in Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, about 1000 km away from the JAXA facility in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, was moved remotely.
At the distance between the moon and the ground, it is thought that the local image will be displayed on the monitor on the ground with a delay of a few seconds, and the issue is how to operate smoothly while considering the time difference.
In the experiment, he moved to avoid obstacles while predicting the position of the heavy equipment a few seconds ahead, and even after switching to automatic driving, the heavy equipment moved accurately on the determined route.
In the future, we plan to conduct experiments in more distant places such as Japan and overseas.
At the press conference, Kajima Corporation's principal researcher, Satoru Miura, said, "What you can't do on the ground can't be done on the moon, so we would like to continue experiments between Japan and overseas to improve the feasibility, and to operate multiple construction machines at the same time. ".