Lessons Learned on the AWIMR Project
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The Northrop Grumman Space Technology (NGST) Automated Walking Inspection and Maintenance Robot (AWIMR) project was one of many NASA Technology Initiatives for the Exploration Initiative, NASA’s program for return to the Moon and Mars. AWIMR was intended to assist astronauts by moving about on the exterior of a crewed space vehicle, performing inspection and other tasks which might assist astronauts executing extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) or reducing the frequency and duration of these EVAs. Though the four-year AWIMR project was canceled after the first year (2005), a number of important lessons were learned that will apply to similar in-space robot projects in the future. We describe these lessons we learned and provide advice for future projects to develop space walking robots.
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