Development and operations in the Dutch utilisation centre

At the early beginning (1989) of implementation of the European User Support Organisation (USO) concept, development and implementation of a Dutch Utilisation Centre (DUC) started at NLR premises. After development of several pilot DUC facilities, DUC participated in a Columbus simulation mission and in the 2nd International Micro-gravity...

NLR robotics development and test environment real time operations simulator

This report contains a description of work performed under contract with the "Nederlands Instituut vor Vliegtuigontwikkeling en Ruimtevaart, NIVR". The objective of the work was to implement and demonstrate a real-time simulation package in the development and test environment of the NLR Teleoperations and Robotics laboratory. Originally,...

Remote payload operations supported by automation and robotics: Ground-based simulation with hardware-in-the-loop

The specific demands and restrictions of remote payload operations in space require special attention during the development and operational phases. One of the important tools used in this process is simulation. The actual type of simulation depends on aspects like the complexity of the system, safety aspects and the development phase it is used...