As Canberra emerges from a long winter, the museum robot is being prepared for its journey from Brisbane to the nation’s capital. Several teams are working on different aspects of the robot project…
CSIRO recently tested the wifi coverage for the robot’s video transmission, and determined that we need to install a couple more base stations in the museum gallery to ensure an even signal coverage, and work is underway to sort this out. The spinning wheel of the large windmill can play havoc with the wifi signal in certain spots, and surprisingly it poses some other problems with the compression of the video signal as well. Having said that, I thought the 360 degree camera image looked fantastic during the recent video streaming tests.
The storage enclosure, where the two robots will retire to their docks after a hard day’s work, has been designed and building works will commence shortly.
And we are on schedule for an early-October installation of the computer servers and other backend infrastructure and so we can confidently say that we’ll be making some trial connections with some schools in late October.
Testing for the panoramic camera
I’m keen to organise connections to our robot with as many NBN-connected schools as possible before the end of the school year, so if you fall into this category stay in touch with our progress. These trial connections will help us bed down the technology and procedures, and give us enough operational experience to plan the pilot program which starts in the new school year.
More news soon…
Robert Bunzli, Special Projects Manager – Education, National Museum of Australia
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