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TRACZ - Testing Robotic Applications for Catching in Zero-g as the first step to research jamming phenomenon in the non-Earth conditions

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posted on 2020-07-14, 11:05 authored by A. Graja, A. Bojda, A. Gorgolewski, K. Bęś, K. Mirek, Ł. Chojnacki, A. Sil
Testing Robotic Applications for Catching in Zero-g is
a fully autonomous mechatronic experiment, launched on March
19, 2019, on board the REXUS rocket, during the 26th Campaign
of the REXUS/BEXUS Programme. The main goal of the
experiment was to investigate the jamming phenomenon in the
space environment (microgravity and vacuum) as well as to
construct a version of industry device known as jamming gripper,
capable of operating in conditions where negative pressure
(physical basis of operation in Earth-like conditions) cannot be
obtained due to the presence of only a residual atmosphere. The
structure was designed as 1-DOF manipulator, whose effector is an
elastic membrane that stimulates jamming of ground coffee
particles inside. During the suborbital flight, a series of catches
were performed on a single object and the force with which the
object is held was measured. The results were compared with an
on-ground experiment.

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Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities, 2019, pp. 230-233

Source

3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities, September 16-18, 2019, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities

Pagination

230-233

Publisher

University of Leicester

isbn

978-1-912989-09-6

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2020-04-15

Notes

Symposium organised by: University of Leicester, UK Students for the Exploration & Development of Space, National Space Academy, ESA Education Office

Editors

Nigel Bannister, Áine O’Brien, Alexander Kinnaird

Spatial coverage

University of Leicester, UK

Temporal coverage: start date

2019-09-16

Temporal coverage: end date

2019-09-18

Language

en

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