Accurate information of inertial parameters is critical to motion planning and control of space robots. Before the launch, only a rudimentary estimate of the inertial parameters is available from experiments and CAD models. After the launch, on-orbit operations substantially alter the value of inertial parameters. In this work, a new momentum model-based method is proposed for identifying the minimal parameters of a space robot while on orbit. Minimal parameters are combinations of the inertial parameters of the links and uniquely define the momentum and dynamic models. Consequently, they are sufficient for motion planning and control of both the satellite and robotic arms mounted on it. The key to the proposed framework is the unique formulation of the momentum model in the linear form of minimal parameters. Further, to estimate the minimal parameters, a novel joint trajectory planning and optimization technique based on direction combinations of joints’ velocity are proposed. The efficacy of the identification framework is demonstrated on a 12-degree-of-freedom, spatial, dual-arm space robot. The methodology is developed for tree-type space robots, requires just the pose and twist data, and is scalable with increasing number of joints.


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    Title :

    Momentum Model-Based Minimal Parameter Identification of a Space Robot


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    Publication date :

    2019-03-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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