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Classnotes A L U M N I L I F E u CLOSE-UP CLASS OF 2010 SPHERES robots float freely inside the International Space Station during a test in October 2008. Looking on from left are astronaut Michael Fincke and American space tourist Richard Garriott. ALUMNUS WORKS ON NASA PROJECT Smartphones can produce driving directions, make restaurant reservations, take photos — and, apparently, control robots in space. The last is thanks, in part, to Mark Micire, who received his doctorate in Computer Science from UMass Lowell last year. Micire is working on a NASA project to control a trio of small free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) using Android smartphones. Micire joined Carnegie Mellon University as a research scientist after graduation and is currently working with the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The volleyball-size robots — called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES — were developed by MIT to test automated rendezvous and formation flying in zero-gravity. During a colloquium held on campus in March, Micire talked about using the SPHERES droids in the space station to assist in human-robot activities. “Our group is using Android smartphones to provide the robots the needed sensing, navigation and planning required for remote operation from the ground,” he says. The phones will be delivered to the ISS by the four-member crew of the space shuttle Atlantis during its mission this July. Mark Micire ’10 64 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE S U M M E R 2 0 1 1
Save the date! Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 Fall Festival 2011 Homecoming | Family Day | Reunions The UMass Lowell community will welcome alumni and autumn in an event-packed Fall Festival 2011. Activities will include Homecoming, Family Day, live entertainment at the Tsongas Center, alumni reunions, Jennifer’s Run 5K and opportunities to see the revitalized campus in action through tours and open labs. You’ll want to be here! Watch for details in the next few weeks. For more information contact alumni_office@uml.edu or visit www.uml.edu/alumni
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