SPACE ROBOTICS

PRESENTED BY
ABHINAV PRASAD
S7 ME
 What is space robotics?
 Space Robotics is the development of machines
for the space environment that perform
Exploration, or to Assemble/Construct, Maintain,
or Service other hardware in Space.
 Humans generally control space robots locally
(e.g. Space Shuttle robotic arm) or from a great
distance (e.g. Mars Exploration Rovers.
 
SPACE ROBOTS

ADVANTAGES:

 Perform tasks less expensively, sooner, and/or with

 less risk or more delicate "touch" than with human
astronauts.
 Go where people can’t go (within reason), and for
long durations.
 Space is a hazardous environment.
 Access to space is expensive.
 Robots don't need to return to Earth (which can be
very costly).
  
AREAS OF APPLICATION

1. In-orbit positioning and assembly

2. Operation

3. Maintenance

4. Resupply
 The following examples give
specific applications 
 Scientific experimentation: 

 Conduct experimentation in space labs that may

include
• Metallurgical experiments which may be
hazardous.
• Astronomical observations.
• Biological experiments.
 Assist crew in space station assembly

• Assist in deployment and assembly out side the station.

• Assist crew inside the space station: Routine crew functions
inside the space station and maintaining life support system.

Space servicing functions.

• Refueling.
• Replacement of faulty modules.
• Assist jammed mechanism say a solar panel, antenna etc.
Space craft enhancements.
• Replace payloads by an upgraded module.
• Attach extra modules in space.
 SPACE TUG

• Grab a satellite and effect orbital transfer.

• Efficient transfer of satellites from low earth

orbit to geostationary orbit.
SPACE ROBOT—CHALLENGES IN DESIGN AND TESTING

1.ZERO ‘G’ EFFECT ON DESIGN

2.VACUUM EFFECT AND THERMAL EFFECT

3. OTHER FACTORS

4.SPACE MODULAR MANIPULATORS

 STRUCTURE OF SPACE
ROBOTS
 DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE OF SPACE
ROBOT
The proposed robot is of articulated type with 6
degrees of freedom (DOF).
 The robot consists of two arms i.e. an upper arm
and a lower arm. The upper arm is fixed to the
base and has rotational DOF about pitch and yaw
axis. The lower arm is connected to the upper
arm by a rotary joint about the pitch axis
 DISCRIPTION OF
SUBSYSTEMS
The main subsystems in the development of the
manipulator arm are 

1.Joints

2.Arm

3. Wrist

4.Gripper
SPACE SHUTTLE ROBOT ARM

1.USE OF SHUTTLE ROBOT ARM

2.ROBOT ARM OPERATION MODE

3. HOW SPACE SHUTTLE ROBOT ARM GRASPS

OBJECT

4. FREE FLYING SPACE ROBOTS

5. SPACE STATION MOUNTED ROBOTS

6. SPACE ROBOT TELEOPERATION

 Future Directions
 Planetary rovers that can operate many days without
commands, and can approach and analyze science
targets from a substantial distance with only a single
command.

 Robots that can Assemble/Construct, Maintain, and

Service space hardware using very precise force control,
dexterous hands, despite multi-second time delay.

 
CONCLUSION
In the future, robotics will make it possible for
billions of people to have lives of leisure instead
of the current preoccupation with material needs.
There are hundreds of millions who are now
fascinated by space but do not have the means to
explore it. For them space robotics will throw
open the door to explore and experience the
universe. 
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