Validation of Ground Control Technology for International Space Station Robot Systems

摘要

The maintenance of the International Space Station, whether conducted by astronauts or robots, will require a lot of crewtime. To remove some of this burden from the astronauts, it is proposed to conduct a portion of the robotic operations using the Mobile Servicing System from a ground station. This paper describes an architecture to allowcontrol of ISS robots from the ground. A concept of operation is proposed taking into account the current capabilities and limitations of the Mobile Servicing System (MSS). The system architecture is briefly described as well as the main sub-systems that make up the ground station. A strategy is presented to validate the proposed architecture using a set of representative mission scenarios and a high-fidelity simulator of the MSS.