A research program to evaluate telerobotic methods for inspace assembly of large truss structures has been initiated at the NASA Langley Research Center. A commercial robot is mounted on a carriage positioning system and a tetrahedral truss, which is composed of 102 members each 2 m long, is assembled on a rotating motion-base. The facility system is described including details of characterization tests on the truss structure. The current status of the assembly tests is discussed and observations from these tests indicate that no problems have been encountered that would prohibit automated telerobotic assembly from being a viable inspace construction method.


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    Title :

    Automated assembly of large space structures


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    Publication date :

    1990-10-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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