First Results of robots crawling on a loose net in microgravity during a sounding rocket experiment
- Paper number
IAC-06-C3.3.05
- Author
Dr. Leopold Summerer, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Dr. Nobuyuki Kaya, Kobe University, Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Bernhard Putz, Austria
- Coauthor
Prof. Peter Kopacek, Austria
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Several concepts for the construction of large antennas have been proposed and discussed. This paper presents the first results obtained during a sounding rocket experiment of the Furoshiki-type concept: a large net deployed by spacecraft forms the antenna surface, on which small robots either deploy to perform simple tasks on antenna elements or constitute individual elements of a larger retro-directive phase array antenna. The present paper discusses the trade-off of the robotic options and presents results obtained from robots on the flight experiment.
- Abstract document
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