Teleoperation of Space Robots for Antenna Assembling Experiment on ETS-VII

Abstract

Antenna assembly using space robots is an effective method for pro-ducing large antennas in space, in addition to inflatable antennas and deployable antennas, and offers several advantages over these latter two ap-proaches. At Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), such assembled antennas have been developed as a means to achieve large space antennas, and the first on-board experiments were performed on Engineering Test Sat-ellite VII (ETS-VII) , which was launched in 1997. In this paper, we outline the antenna-assembly experiment on ETS-VII and our teleoperation system. 1