TY - GEN
T1 - Low-cost Approach of Ground-based GNC experiments of distributed space systems
AU - Caon, Alex
AU - Silvestrini, Stefano
AU - Guo, Jian
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Robotics facilities have a long history in the development of space equipment, since they allow to perform tests on systems like guidance, navigation and control, visual-based navigation and docking mechanisms. Those facilities are based on two manipulators, one representing the a target satellite, the other the chaser satellite which perform a relative motion with respect to the first. This approach has been used in the past to perform tests on docking operations, visual-base navigation system to populate databases. Delft University of Technology recently developed its own robotics facility for GNC and multisatellite systems applications. It hosts two robots on a moving base, which work in synergy to extend the operational space. They operate in a dark environment, where there are lights to simulate the sun disturbance and a beamer that projects the Earth to have a representative background. The purpose of this paper is to describe the laboratory, along with the control architecture of the robots and provide some tests executed to assess the accuracy of them in tracking a given trajectory.
AB - Robotics facilities have a long history in the development of space equipment, since they allow to perform tests on systems like guidance, navigation and control, visual-based navigation and docking mechanisms. Those facilities are based on two manipulators, one representing the a target satellite, the other the chaser satellite which perform a relative motion with respect to the first. This approach has been used in the past to perform tests on docking operations, visual-base navigation system to populate databases. Delft University of Technology recently developed its own robotics facility for GNC and multisatellite systems applications. It hosts two robots on a moving base, which work in synergy to extend the operational space. They operate in a dark environment, where there are lights to simulate the sun disturbance and a beamer that projects the Earth to have a representative background. The purpose of this paper is to describe the laboratory, along with the control architecture of the robots and provide some tests executed to assess the accuracy of them in tracking a given trajectory.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105015395100
U2 - 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace64938.2025.11114591
DO - 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace64938.2025.11114591
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105015395100
T3 - 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2025 - Proceedings
SP - 210
EP - 215
BT - 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2025 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE
T2 - 12th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2025
Y2 - 18 June 2025 through 20 June 2025
ER -