System Design of Robots for Application to In-Space Assembly

Harshit Suri, Peter Will, and Wei-Min Shen. System Design of Robots for Application to In-Space Assembly. In Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, October 2006.

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of an experimental system for assembly applications in space. The prototypical application is the assembly of mechanical trusses. The system used an air-hockey table to simulate a frictionless two-dimensional space. Assembly robots fly on the surface finding, gathering and assembling the relevant parts to perform the construction. The system design involved building the FIMER Robots, the test bed, the sensing system for position and velocity feedback and the control scheme. This paper describes the hardware and software used in the various sub-systems and includes calibrations and measurements and the results of experiments.

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@InProceedings{	  suri2006system-design-of-robots-for-application,
  abstract	= {This paper presents the design of an experimental system
		  for assembly applications in space. The prototypical
		  application is the assembly of mechanical trusses. The
		  system used an air-hockey table to simulate a frictionless
		  two-dimensional space. Assembly robots fly on the surface
		  finding, gathering and assembling the relevant parts to
		  perform the construction. The system design involved
		  building the FIMER Robots, the test bed, the sensing system
		  for position and velocity feedback and the control scheme.
		  This paper describes the hardware and software used in the
		  various sub-systems and includes calibrations and
		  measurements and the results of experiments.},
  address	= {Beijing, China},
  author	= {Harshit Suri and Peter Will and Wei-Min Shen},
  booktitle	= iros-06,
  month		= oct,
  title		= {System Design of Robots for Application to In-Space
		  Assembly},
  year		= {2006}
}