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Personnel occupied woven envelope robotThe Personnel Occupied Woven Envelope Robot (POWER) provides an alternative to extravehicular activity (EVA) of space suited astronauts and/or use of long slender manipulator arms such as are used in the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System. POWER provides the capability for a shirt sleeved astronaut to perform such work by entering a control pod through air locks at both ends of an inflated flexible bellows (access tunnel). The exoskeleton of the tunnel is a series of six degrees of freedom (Six-DOF) articulated links compressible to 1/6 of their fully extended length. The operator can maneuver the control pod to almost any location within about 50 m of the base attachment to the space station. POWER can be envisioned as a series of hollow Six-DOF manipulator segments or arms wherein each arm grasps the shoulder of the next arm. Inside the hollow arms ia a bellow-type access tunnel. The control pod is the fist of the series of linked hollow arms. The fingers of the fist are conventional manipulator arms under direct visual control of the nearby operator in the pod. The applications and progress to date of the POWER system is given.
Document ID
19880020024
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Wessling, Francis
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Teoh, William
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ziemke, M. Carl
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
August 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Accession Number
88N29408
Distribution Limits
Public
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