| Accession number;00A0150770 |
| Title;Automatic Satellite Capture with Robot Arm. |
| Author;INABA NORIYASU(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) INAGAKI TETSUYA(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) WATANABE YOSHIO(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) KAWANO ISAO(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) MOKUNO MASAAKI(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) ODA MITSUSHIGE(Natl. Space Dev. Agency of Jpn.) |
Journal Title;Proceedings of the Space Sciences and Technology Conference
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Journal Code:S0277A
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VOL.43rd;NO.;PAGE.89-94(1999)
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| Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.10, TBL.1, REF.3 |
| Pub. Country;Japan |
| Language;Japanese |
| Abstract;On-orbit service such as refueling, repairing and re-orbiting is highly required for space activities. For on-orbit service, it is one of the most important and most difficult technique to capture a "customer satellite" by a robot arm which can move dynamically in a wide range of space. An on-board autonomy "machine vision" is highly required to perform this dynamic task, because a control loop including the ground station tends to be unstable because of the communication time delay between a ground station and a space robot. An experiment was conducted using Japanese Engineering Test Satellite VII(ETS-VII) to capture a free floating satellite on orbit first time in the world. Successful results of the experiment are presented in this paper. (author abst.) |
