Antenna Assembling Experiments on ETS-VII.

Space Robot Experiments on NASDAs ETS-VII Satellite

ETS-VII Flight Experiments For Space Robot Dynamics and Control

The Engineering Test Satellite VII (ETS-VII), developed and launched by National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) has been successfully flown and carried out significant experiments on orbital robotics with a 2 meter-long, 6 DOF manipulator arm mounted on this un-manned spacecraft. The ETS-VII should be noted as one of remarkable outcomes of the research effort on space robots, particu...

Testing Space Robotics on the Japanese ETS-VII Satellite

Introduction ETS-VII (Engineering Test Satellite VII) is a NASDA programme designed to test key rendezvous, docking and robotics technologies in space. The Japanese space agency has built, launched and operates this test satellite, equipped with a robotic manipulator and a small subsatellite, to carry out such experiments. In response to a NASDA call for co-operation, ESA proposed two experimen...

Precise Telerobotic System for Space Experiment on Ets-vii

In this paper we present the design, development and space test of the world's first precise telerobotic system boarded on an unmanned space vehicle, ETS-VII (Engineering Test Satellite VII). The robotic system has features of skill and autonomy using a three-finger multisensory hand at a work site in space and computer graphicsbased desktop telerobotics at a control site on the ground. We deve...

ETS-VII: Achievements, Troubles and Future

ETS-VII (Engineering Test Satellite No.7) was launched on Nov.1997 to conduct automated rendezvous docking and space robot technology experiments. A 6dof robot arm which is mounted on the ETS-VII chaser satellite were tele-operated from ground and were used to in various experiments such as ORU exchange, equipment handling and satellite capture. These results came by overcoming various troubles...