The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Station Program marks the begining of a new era in space utilization and habitation. Extensive use of remote manipulation and robotics to reduce astronaut extra-vehicular activity is expected. Emphasis on teleoperator technology in early Space Station phases, followed by growth of autonomous robotics capabilities, is planned. A new telerobot concept has been developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under NASA Langley Research Center sponsorship, to address the technical needs of both teleoperations and telerobotics for these future NASA programs. The concept is based on traction drives, redundant kinematics, modular construction, and a state-of-the-art distributed, hierarchical control system.


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    Title :

    Traction-drive telerobot for space manipulation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ; 1987 ; Raleigh, NC, United States


    Publication date :

    1987-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English