Space applications for telerobotics requires a manipulator that is robust to the large payload variations that occur in a zero-g environment. One approach to provide the required performance for this large payload variation is to provide inertial decoupling to the controller. The equations to generate the required joint torques can be obtained in several manners but the independent parameters required to perform the calculations are difficult to obtain. This presentation consists of an overview of the inertial decoupling control system and discusses how to reduce the inertial parameter set to a minimum and obtain the required parameter set to a minimum and obtain the required parameter vector using sensed joint positions and torques. In addition, as telerobotic technology becomes more prevalent in the space environments the ability to emulate the effect of zero-g in a one-g environment is critical in learning how to perform tasks in space. To emulate the zero-g environment it is necessary to remove the effect of gravity on the manipulator by determining the feedforward joint torques. A subset of the algorithm developed to obtain the decoupling parameters is used to obtain the gravity offload parameters. These parameters are used to eliminate the effect of gravity. The algorithm is validated on Martin Marietta/NASA Langley's, 7 Degrees-Of-Freedom (DOF) Flight Telerobotic Servicer Hydraulic Manipulator Test Bed. A video portraying actual results of the algorithm is provided.


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    Title :

    Determination of the mass properties of a manipulator


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    Publication date :

    1993-01-01



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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