The Rosetta mission for cometary exploration required, like most planetary missions, a significant period of time including many adaptations of the original plan until it arrived at its target and completed the missio...
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The Rosetta mission for cometary exploration required, like most planetary missions, a significant period of time including many adaptations of the original plan until it arrived at its target and completed the mission objectives 2016. This contribution addresses the evolution of mission objectives, spacecraft design and target comet. The author was already involved from early system definition studies for the "Comet Nucleus Sample Return (CNSR)" in 1989. The mission was first planned as joint mission by ESA/NASA, landing the complete spacecraft on the comet in order to enable drilling and sampling to a depth of 3 m. The acquired comet materials were stored in a return capsule to transfer them to Earth for detailed analyses in laboratories. After withdrawal of NASA from this mission, the nuclear batteries were missing and there followed an ESA-Mission with the payloads Champollion / RoLand to land on the comet, while the core spacecraft Rosetta focussed on remote observations. Later only one lander fitted into the mass budgets and thus the Rosetta/Philae mission materialized. After the Ariane-5 maiden flight failure, the target comet had to be changed from 46P/Wirtanen to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with significant impact on the approach trajectory. After an interplanetary transfer of 8 years including several flybys at Earth, Venus and Mars Rosetta finally arrived in in 2014 at the comet and inserted in an orbit around the comet. After a period of near range observations in November 2014 the Lander Philae settled on the surface of comet P67 Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In August 2015 the perihel passage offered near range observation of the most active phase of the comet. Finally in September 2016 the Rosetta spacecraft will attempt a controlled impact on the cometary surface. This contribution will emphasize the mission and spacecraft design evolution during this 27 years period. It will in particular address the technology challenges and the solution approaches of the r
To extend our system for teleoperation and telemaintenance of industrial machinery we combine it with a rule based analysis framework from our telemedicine system. The goal is to provide a remote expert the ability to...
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Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or nonco-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of the ...
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This paper presents a trajectory planning approach, the Rapidly Exploring Random Tree∗ Controller and Planner (RRTCAP∗), combining the planning phase of a RRT∗-based algorithm with the execution phase on a real robot....
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Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or non- co-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of th...
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Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or non- co-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of the application fields where robustness and reliability of the closed loop plays a significant role. Caused by the communication chain in the control loop, there are challenging constraints that can affect the stability and performance of a closed loop. One can consider a large number of difficulties in this type of control systems, for instance unknown delay and packet drop-out. There are already a large number of methods and approaches to handle issues in the NCS and because of increasing interest of the industry, many are still being developed to improve the features of the closed loops over communication networks. This paper summarizes the existing theory of the networked control systems under communication constraints and presents an H∞ synthesis for a simple plant. Finally the results are illustrated, discussed and validated using real measurements from a robotic system.
This paper presents a trajectory planning approach, the Rapidly Exploring Random Tree∗ Controller and Planner (RRTCAP∗), combining the planning phase of a RRT∗-based algorithm with the execution phase on a real robot....
This paper presents a trajectory planning approach, the Rapidly Exploring Random Tree∗ Controller and Planner (RRTCAP∗), combining the planning phase of a RRT∗-based algorithm with the execution phase on a real robot. Despite the necessary adaption of RRT∗ - planner, using Reed-Sheeps curves as local planning method, a trajectory controller is shown which is necessary for compensating deviations introduced by mechanical tolerances and simplified models. The algorithm is implemented on the existing mobile robot Outdoor MERLIN and evaluated in different scenarios using simulations, as well as hardware experiments.
Industrialized countries have a growing need for telemedical structures for dealing with the growing numbers of patients caused by the development of the demographic structures. The progress of performant mobile devic...
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Industrialized countries have a growing need for telemedical structures for dealing with the growing numbers of patients caused by the development of the demographic structures. The progress of performant mobile devices and affordable medical sensors offer the possibility for building up a telemedical system using commercial “off-the-shelf” devices by using personal area communication technologies. In order to achieve a very generic and flexible system, a rule-based framework was developed. It is used to model individual behaviors of the system, depending on the patients disease, treatment and the used devices. It allows to add autonomous functions to the patients mobile device and allows data preprocessing and feedback to the user even without an active data communication to the medical center. In the Tele-Service-Center the framework can be used to filter and analyze data or adapt the treatment of each individual patient. The proposed system was implemented and tested in real life with patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a very good feedback.
We developed a line coating robot, which will be used to apply markings on different surfaces like roads, factory floors or the ground of swimming pools. We implemented a navigation controller for the robot that uses ...
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We developed a line coating robot, which will be used to apply markings on different surfaces like roads, factory floors or the ground of swimming pools. We implemented a navigation controller for the robot that uses a laser sensor to move the robot precisely along a path that is marked with laser light. We build up a laser sensor ourselves to minimize costs and gain higher flexibility and compared this sensor to a commercial laser sensor in respect to robustness, resolution and performance.
The possibility of maintaining a group of pico-satellites in a bounded formation, using very low power electric propulsion, is presented. A model predictive controller is used to develop a simple control scheme that a...
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This work presents the RRT-planning algorithm adapted to a mobile car-like robot. Based on an short overview of the RRT-approach, all necessary components, adapted to target vehicle, are shown. A possible state space ...
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