| Summary: | Pascal Lee, Mars Institute, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC), US Christopher McKay, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US Gregory Quinn, Collins Aerospace, US Tom Chase, Collins Aerospace, US Moina Tamuly, Ntention, NO Sondre Tagestad, Ntention, NO Haakon Pettersen, Ntention, NO Magnus Arveng, Ntention, NO Frank Oygard, Ntention, NO Brandon Dotson, Aviation Flight Test Directorate - Redstone Arsenal, US John Schutt, Mars Institute, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, US Jake Rohrig, Collins Aerospace, US ICES405: Human/Robotics System Integration The proceedings for the 2020 International Conference on Environmental Systems were published from July 31, 2020. The technical papers were not presented in person due to the inability to hold the event as scheduled in Lisbon, Portugal because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Astronauts exploring the Moon, Mars and beyond will be assisted by robotic systems to render their work more efficient, productive, and safe. Among these, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones (airplanes, rotorcraft, or gas thrustered flyers), hold great promise, as they may assist astronauts in a wide range of science and exploration activities. UAV operations, however, are presently demanding tasks. Conventional drone interfaces require significant dexterity and situational awareness to enable subtle and rapid real-time control inputs. Such interfacing would be inadequate if the drone operator were wearing a pressurized spacesuit, as the latter fundamentally limits an astronaut’s ability to perceive and interact with the extra-vehicular environment. During the 2019 campaign of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) on Devon Island, High Arctic, an established Moon and Mars analog field research site, a novel concept for a wireless human-machine interface (HMI) called “Astronaut Smart Glove”(ASG) was field-tested in ...
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