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Internal Automation and Robotics Testbed
 
Internal Automation and Robotics Testbed at the A&R Laboratories
 
The testbed has been established:
  •  to demonstrate the benefits of Automation and Robotics (A&R) for payload operations and for familiarizing potential users, payload engineers and operators with A&R.
  •  to provide a development and testing environment  for A&R technology
The Testbed features a series of payload mockups that can be operated by a central robot system. The operation of the robot follows the "Interactive Autonomy" control scheme. The testbed has been used for
  • Controller HW/SW development and test, including local force feedback control laws to handle uncertainty in environment and comply with micro-g requirements (SPARCO, CESAR).
  • Development of a Calibration technique to minimize errors induced by mechanical/structural difference between design and implementation (Resulting in major Spin-off: Krypton, is now one of the leading player in the industrial market)
  • Ground Station development environment to remotely plan/verify the robotic activity before executing it, and to monitor it during its execution (DREAMS, TELEMAN). Validated in 1999 during the Vision & Interactive Autonomy Bi-Lateral Experiments (VIABLE) executed in cooperation with NASDA in the frame of ETS-VII satellite flight.
 
 
Last update: 26 September 2006
 
 
 
 
 
 
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