Technologies The NASA Space Telerobotics Program

Multiple Interacting Robots

The Aerospace Robotics Laboratory (ARL) at Stanford University is developing new concepts for the precise manipulation of objects in free space. The ARL is pursuing two fields of robotic manipulation: control of freeÐflying vehicle systems, and high-performance control of flexible manipulators (27,28). The control of free flying vehicle systems focuses on navigation techniques and the development of a supervisory task level interface for tasks such as assembly of structures using a team of free flying space robots. The area of flexible manipulators includes research in object manipulation by a flexible macro-mini manipulator, and adaptive control of manipulators with complex dynamic payloads. Figure 28 illustrates one of the Stanford free-flying robots operating above an air-bearing table.


Point of Contact:
R. H. Cannon, Jr.
Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
Aeronautics & Astronautics Department
258 Durand Building
Stanford University, CA 94305
415-723-3602
cannon@sun_valley.stanford.edu


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