DocumentCode :
1709894
Title :
Mission design of a tethered robot satellite “STARS” for orbital experiment
Author :
Nohmi, Masahiro
Author_Institution :
Kagawa Univ., Takamatsu, Japan
fYear :
2009
Firstpage :
1075
Lastpage :
1080
Abstract :
The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS) was developed in Kagawa University and launched by the H-IIA rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on 23 January, 2009. The primary objective of STARS is technical verification of a tethered space robot, which is connected to a mother spacecraft through a tether, proposed in 1995. Main characteristics of STARS are: (i) it is mother-daughter satellite; (ii) it becomes a tethered system on orbit; (iii) the daughter satellite is a tethered space robot. STARS consists of two satellites connected by a tether. One is a mother satellite (a mother spacecraft), which deploys and retrieves a tether connected to the other satellite. The other is a daughter satellite (a tethered space robot). The mother satellite has a tether deployment system. During tether deployment, the attitude of the daughter satellite is controlled by its own arm link motion, and a camera mounted on the daughter satellite takes a photograph of the mother satellite. It is important to design launch lock for STARS, since it has many actuation parts and it is two satellites system.
Keywords :
aerospace robotics; artificial satellites; attitude control; mobile robots; robot vision; H-IIA rocket; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Kagawa University; STARS; attitude control; mission design; mother spacecraft; mother-daughter satellite; space tethered autonomous robotic satellite; technical verification; tether deployment system; Aerospace industry; Attitude control; Cameras; Control systems; Motion control; Orbital robotics; Rockets; Satellites; Service robots; Space technology;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, (CCA) & Intelligent Control, (ISIC), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Saint Petersburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4601-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4602-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.2009.5281113
Filename :
5281113
Link To Document :
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