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Agent-Based Design of Fault Tolerant Manipulators for Satellite Docking

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Paredis, Christiaan J. J.
Khosla, Pradeep K.
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A rapidly deployable fault tolerant manipulator system consists of modular hardware and support software that allow the user to quickly configure and deploy a fault tolerant manipulator that is custom-tailored for a given task. The main focus of this paper is on the Task Based Design component of such a system; that is, the determination of the optimal manipulator configuration, its base position, and the corresponding joint space trajectory for a given task. We introduce a novel agent-based solution approach to task based design and illustrate it with a fault tolerant manipulator design for a satellite docking operation aboard the space shuttle.
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Department of Energy (Grant #DE-F902-89ER14042).
Sandia National Laboratories(Contract AL-3020)
The Robotics Institute at Mellon University
Georgia Institute of Technology
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1997-04
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