3 accepted papers
The International Space Station (ISS) crew has to complete various tasks in a limited time. The Int-Ball project is one of the activities aimed at the efficient utilization of crew time. Int-Ball2 is an autonomous mobile robot that conducts imaging operations in place of crew members by remote contr…
Small free-flying robots to assist astronauts and perform experiments need a propulsion system to move freely in microgravity. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators can simultaneously verify guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems, including flight hardware and software, in three dimensions.…
A rocket-propelled miniature robot is capable to explore sites that planetary rovers cannot reach with efficiency in locomotion distance per mass. The technical difficulty is the significant variance in its flight distance because of two factors: sensitivity of error in the center of gravity with re…