Development of miniature robotic manipulators to enable SmallSat clusters

Keyphrases

• Robotic Manipulator 100%
• Miniature Robot 100%
• SmallSat 100%
• End-effector 25%
• Separation Distance 16%
• Modularity 16%
• Power Use 16%
• Rendezvous 16%
• Robotic Arm 16%
• Hardware Reconfiguration 16%
• Interferometry 8%
• Alignment Error 8%
• Actuation 8%
• Thermal Drift 8%
• Actuator 8%
• Large-scale Structure 8%
• Four Aspects 8%
• Robot Arm 8%
• Reconfigurable 8%
• Assembly Method 8%
• Manipulator 8%
• Risk Reduction 8%
• Technology Development 8%
• Cluster Formation 8%
• Large Aperture 8%
• Packing Volume 8%
• Formation Flying 8%
• COTS Components 8%
• Rendezvous Control 8%
• Optical Aperture 8%
• Spacecraft Motion 8%
• Mother-daughter 8%
• Development Area 8%
• Secondary Payload 8%
• Space Shuttle 8%
• Docking Technique 8%
• Staring 8%
• Relative Control 8%
• Science Instruments 8%
• End-effector Design 8%
• Small Science 8%
• Total Element 8%
• In-space Assembly 8%
• Close Formation 8%
• Robotic Solution 8%
• Variable Baseline 8%
• Positioning Uncertainty 8%
• Robotic Docking 8%
• Integration Effort 8%
• Miniature Robotic Arm 8%
• Scalable Structure 8%
• Motor Driver 8%

Engineering

• Robotic Manipulator 100%
• End Effector 100%
• Robotic Arm 75%
• Separation Distance 50%
• Hardware Reconfiguration 50%
• Energy Engineering 25%
• Actuation 25%
• Interferometry 25%
• Potential Application 25%
• Robot Arm 25%
• Larger Aperture 25%
• Manipulator 25%
• Space Shuttle 25%
• Spacecraft Relative 25%