Global Grasp Planning for On-Orbit Robotic Manipulation: Design of an analytic grasp planning engine for autonomous capture of novel objects

To manage the increasing amount of satellite traffic in orbit and renewed operational ambitions, it is crucial to advance the capabilities of space robotic systems to enable complex manipulability tasks. These abilities will provide the necessary components to perform satellite de-orbiting, servicing of important assets, and assistance in on...

Guidance and Control of a Spacecraft Swarm with Limited Knowledge

There is no doubt that the smallest spacecraft platforms (CubeSats, NanoSats and microsats) are revolutionizing the market. The possibilities of developing spacecraft through standard platforms, commercial of the shelf components and then reduced the costs of development has allowed new organizations to enter the space section. On top of that,...

Development of a Robust and Combined Controller for On-Orbit Servicing Missions

Nowadays, a satellite is considered as out of range forever once it is launched. This may soon no longer hold thanks to on-orbit servicing. However, the complexity of that topic makes it highly challenging on many aspects. On-orbit servicing using a robotic arm is nonetheless the most investigated technology in order to achieve the berthing of...

Uncertainty Estimation in Vision-Aided Robot Teleoperation System

Teleoperation allows the use of human intelligence and decision making in remote tasks which are too dangerous for humans to perform. Technologies such as force feedback and haptic guidance have shown to increase task efficiency during teleoperation. In an unmodeled environment, sensors provide input for haptic guidance or present extra...

The Development of an Efficient Grasp Master for Space Robotics Teleoperation

This thesis reports on the development of an efficient grasp master for space robotics teleoperation that will complement the haptic human arm master X-Arm-2 (Schiele 2011). It should provide the hand and fingers of various operators with sensing and feedback functions, enabling bilateral teleoperation of various types of robotic end-effectors...

Fundamentals of ergonomic exoskeleton robots

This thesis is the first to provide the fundamentals of ergonomic exoskeleton design. The fundamental theory as well as technology necessary to analyze and develop ergonomic wearable robots interacting with humans is established and validated by experiments and prototypes. The fundamentals are (1) a new theoretical framework for analyzing...