One of the needs of the experimenters on the space station is access to steady and controlled-variation microgravity environments. A method of providing these environments is to place the experiment on a tether attached to the space station. This provides a high degree of isolation from structural oscillations and vibrations. Crawlers can move these experiments along the tethers to preferred locations, much like an elevator. This report describes the motion control laws developed for these crawlers and the testing of laboratory models of these tether elevator crawlers.


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    Title :

    Tether Elevator Crawler Systems (TECS)


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1987-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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