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Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Alan A. Desrochers

    1. Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 168)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Testbed for Cooperative Robotic Manipulators

    • James F. Watson III, Donald R. Lefebvre, Alan A. Desrochers, Stephen H. Murphy, Keith R. Fieldhouse
    Pages 1-38

  3. An Automated Assembly System for Large Space Structures

    • Ralph Will, Marvin Rhodes, William R. Doggett, Catherine L. Herstrom, Carolyn Grantham, Cheryl L. Allen et al.
    Pages 39-110

  4. Development of a Truss Joint for Robotic Assembly of Space Structures

    • George F. Parma
    Pages 111-139

  5. Hierarchical Planning for Space-Truss Assembly

    • Rajive K. Mathur, Rolf Münger, Arthur C. Sanderson
    Pages 141-184

  6. Three-Dimensional Vision

    • J. Russell Noseworthy, Arthur M. Ryan, Lester A. Gerhardt
    Pages 185-240

  7. CIRSSE General Purpose Gripper and Controller System

    • Robert B. Kelley, Jodi Tsai, Jeff Bethel, John Peiffer
    Pages 241-255

  8. Simulation of Space Manipulators

    • Stephen H. Murphy
    Pages 257-295

  9. Automated Assembly in the JPL Telerobot Testbed

    • J. Bob Balaram, Henry W. Stone
    Pages 297-342

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 343-345
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Over the last twenty years, automation and robotics have played an increasingly important role in a variety of application domains including manufacturing, hazardous environments, defense, and service industries. Space is a unique environment where power, communications, atmospheric, gravitational, and sensing conditions impose harsh constraints on the ability of both man and machines to function productively.
In this environment, intelligent automation and robotics are essential complements to the capabilities of humans. In the development of the United States Space Program, robotic manipulation systems have increased in importance as the complexity of space missions has grown. Future missions will require the construction, maintenance, and repair of large structures, such as the space station. This volume presents the effords of several groups that are working on robotic solutions to this problem.
Much of the work in this book is related to assembly in space, and especially in-orbit assembly of large truss structures. Many of these so-called truss structures will be assembled in orbit. It is expected that robot manipulators will be used exclusively, or at least provide partial assistance to humans.
Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration provides detailed algorithms and analysis for assembly of truss structure in space. It reports on actual implementations to date done at NASA's Langley Research Center. The Johnson Space Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Other implementations and research done at Rensselaer are also reported. Analysis of robot control problems that are unique to a zero-gravity environment are presented.

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'The book will be of most use to those in the space industry who are actually concerned with the fabrication of large space structures.' Journal of Aerospace Engineering 1992

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Alan A. Desrochers

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