Astrobee Overview: System, Status, Performance, and Specification
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Benavides, Jose V.↗
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Benavides, Jose V.
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SPHERES/Astrobee Working Group (SAWG) Quarterly Meeting
SPHERES Astrobee Working Group (SAWG) Quarterly meeting. Membership includes MIT, FIT, AFS, DARPA, CASIS, SJSU, and NASA (HQ, KSC, JSC, MSFC, and ARC). Face-to-Face, twice a year Purpose: Information sharing across the SPHERES community. Program office shares National Lab Facility availability. Status of resources (batteries, CO2 tanks, etc.), Overall Calendar (scheduled Test Sessions, upmassreturn), and Updates on new PD, Investigations, and ISS infrastructure. Provide the SPHERES community (PD, investigators, etc.) with up-to-date information to determine opportunities to use the NL Facility. Discuss proposed changes updates to SPHERES Nat Lab which may be required to support a specific activity or research. Discuss specific support requests made to the ISS Office
Benavides, Jose V.↗
SPHERES/Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Facility
The Evolving Commercial Laboratory: What's Next in Research CapabilitiesAdvancing the research capabilities that are present on the International Space Station is critical to the future of advancing space based R&D as well as enabling a commercial economy in LEO. The options for ISS research are constantly adapting and many new research capabilities are here today and on the horizon. This session will feature presentations and an open discussion with commercial facility providers who are leading a renaissance of in-orbit capabilities that are updating and expanding the R&D opportunities that are available to microgravity and space based researchers aboard the International Space Station.
Benavides, Jose V.↗
Future Free Flyer Science on the ISS
The Astrobee Research Facility will maintain three identical free-flying Astrobee robots on the ISS. After the Astrobees are launched and commissioned in 2018, they will replace the SPHERES robots that have been operating on the ISS since 2006. Astrobee can fly autonomously throughout most of the US section of the ISS interior, but cannot operate outside the ISS. Astrobee is propelled by a pair of battery-operated fans, and can autonomously return to a docking station to recharge, so it can perform most activities without requiring any astronaut support. It carries a suite of six cameras, a two degree-of-freedom (DOF) arm with a gripper that can grasp ISS handrails and other objects, and three payload bays that provide power and data for guest science hardware. It can autonomously execute hours-long plans (for example, sensor surveys) or be teleoperated live from the ground or by astronauts.
Katterhagen, Aric J.↗
SPHERES: Synchronized, Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites
SPHERES/Astrobee Working Group (SAWG) Quarterly meeting. Membership includes MIT, FIT, AFS, DARPA, CASIS, SJSU, and NASA (HQ, KSC, JSC, MSFC, and ARC) Face-to-Face, twice a year. The purpose is information sharing across the SPHERES community. Program office shares National Lab facility availability. Status of resources (batteries, CO2 tanks, etc.), overall calendar (scheduled Test Sessions, upmass return), and updates on new PD, investigations, and ISS infrastructure. Provide the SPHERES community (PD, investigators, etc.) with up-to-date information to determine opportunities to use the National Lab facility. Discuss proposed changes and updates to SPHERES National Lab which may be required to support a specific activity or research. Discuss specific support requests made to the ISS Office.
SPHERES satellites↗
SPHERES Synchronized, Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellite
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Benavides, Jose V.↗
SPHERES and Astrobee: Space Station Robotic Free Flyers
Free-flying space robots can be used when humans are present to off-load routine work, to increase astronaut productivity, and to handle contingencies. The International Space Station (ISS), for example, is a continuously manned orbital laboratory the size of a large house, which contains many thousands of inventory items and hundreds of diverse payloads and experiments - all of which have to be managed by 6 person crew. To help with this, NASA is developing and testing robotic free-flyers on the ISS. SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) is an ISS facility with three nano-satellites designed to research estimation, control, and autonomy algorithms. SPHERES are volleyball-sized, have their own power, propulsion and navigation systems, and work on the ISS under astronaut supervision. For more than 10 years, NASA has made SPHERES available to other U.S. government agencies, schools, commercial companies and students as a platform for science, technology development, and education. SPHERES will soon be succeeded by the new Astrobee free-flying robot. Astrobee builds on the success of SPHERES, but in addition to research, the robot will also be used for housekeeping and monitoring duties without astronaut supervision. Astrobee makes extensive use of open-source (the complete software stack is available on GitHub) and is scheduled to be installed on the ISS in late Spring 2018.
Benavides, Jose V.↗
Astrobee Guest Science
At the end of 2018, Astrobee will launch three free-flying robots that will navigate the entire US segment of the ISS and serve as a payload facility. The mechanical and electrical interfaces are now established and several payloads are being developed.
Barlow, Jonathan S.↗