Name
Abstract | ||
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Locomotion is an important factor affecting astronaut support robots that are used in construction, repair, and inspection. Its requirements include long reach, compactness, and light weight. Tether is a good candidate because it allows for a long reach but is very light. It is also compact when wound up. The authors have previously proposed a reconfigurable tether-based locomotion method. In the concept, the robot attaches/detaches its tethers to/from handrails on the spacecraft and moves by controlling the length and tension of the tethers. From August 2012 to May 2013, JAXA conducted the Robot Experiment on JEM (REX-J) mission, experimentally demonstrating the proposed method on the International Space Station. During the experiment, all the locomotion tasks were successfully completed. This paper describes the results of these locomotion experiments. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2017 | 10.20965/jrm.2017.p0792 | JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
space robot,locomotion,tether,international space station | Orbit,Robot control,Simulation,Computer science,Aerospace engineering,Robot locomotion,International Space Station,Mobile robot | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
29 | SP5 | 0915-3942 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 2 |
Authors | ||
10 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiroki Nakanishi | 1 | 59 | 6.15 |
| Mitsuhiro Yamazumi | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Sotaro Karakama | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Mitsushige Oda | 4 | 219 | 28.56 |
| Shinichiro Nishida | 5 | 3 | 3.82 |
| Hiroki Kato | 6 | 3 | 3.14 |
| keisuke watanabe | 7 | 0 | 2.37 |
| Ueta, A. | 8 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Masahiro Yoshii | 9 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Satoshi Suzuki | 10 | 0 | 0.34 |