Sections of the report are devoted to: Programs and infrastructure (agencies involved and their activities; space robotics community infrastructure; roles and functions of organizations; the Japanese approach to space robotics R&D; the long-term views of industry); the National Space Development Agency's (NASDA) Japanese Experimental Module (JEM) project for Space Station Freedom; orbital operations (ISAS/MELCO's Autonomous Satellite Retrieval EXperiment - ASREX; NASDA's Experimental Test Satellite - ETS-7; NASDA's Orbiting Service Vehicle - OSV; Hope shuttle; free-flying robots proposed for Cosmos-Lab); surface exploration and construction (NASDA's lunar mission concept; requirements of surface robots; wheeled, tracked and hybrid mobile robots; legged mobile robots; construction and nuclear robots); supporting technologies (task control; motion control; master-slave systems; novel mechanisms, actuators and devices; special purpose systems). An appendix provides site visit reports concerning 28 Japanese organizations involved in space robotics activities. (Copyright (c) 1991 by Loyola College.)


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    Title :

    JTEC Panel Report on Space Robotics in Japan


    Contributors:
    W. L. Whittaker (author) / T. Kanade (author) / P. Allen (author) / A. K. Bejczy (author) / J. W. Lowrie (author)

    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    260 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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