A review of space robotics technologies for on-orbit servicing

A Flores-Abad, O Ma, K Pham, S Ulrich - Progress in aerospace sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Space robotics is considered one of the most promising approaches for on-orbit
servicing (OOS) missions such as docking, berthing, refueling, repairing, upgrading …

A review on two-link flexible manipulators

K Lochan, BK Roy, B Subudhi - Annual Reviews in Control, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents a survey in the field of two-link flexible manipulators (TLFMs). Two-link
flexible manipulators are more used in comparison with other types of flexible manipulators …

Review of modelling and control of flexible-link manipulators

M Sayahkarajy, Z Mohamed… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent decades, flexible manipulators have been studied by many researchers from
robotics, solid mechanics, and control fields. Flexible manipulators have many advantages …

Position-based visual servo control of autonomous robotic manipulators

G Dong, ZH Zhu - Acta Astronautica, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper concerns the position-based visual servo control of autonomous robotic
manipulators in space. It focuses on the development of a real-time vision-based pose and …

Dynamics analysis and vibration suppression of a spatial rigid-flexible link manipulator based on transfer matrix method of multibody system

M Shi, B Rong, J Liang, W Zhao, H Pan - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
The vibration suppression directly affects the dynamic performance and working accuracy of
flexible manipulators, which is one of the important issues in the robotics field. However …

Dynamic modeling and fuzzy adaptive control strategy for space flexible robotic arm considering joint flexibility based on improved sliding mode controller

D Shang, X Li, M Yin, F Li - Advances in Space Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Space flexible robotic arms can be installed on space stations or spacecraft to
perform on-orbit tasks such as capturing artificial satellites, removing space debris, and …

Tutorial review on space manipulators for space debris mitigation

A Ellery - Robotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Space-based manipulators have traditionally been tasked with robotic on-orbit servicing or
assembly functions, but active debris removal has become a more urgent application. We …

Dynamic modeling and vibration characteristics analysis of flexible-link and flexible-joint space manipulator

D Meng, Y She, W Xu, W Lu, B Liang - Multibody System Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
With the development of space technology, lighter and larger space manipulators will be
born, of which flexible characteristics are more obvious. The manipulator vibration caused …

Dynamic modelling and adaptive robust tracking control of a space robot with two-link flexible manipulators under unknown disturbances

X Yang, SS Ge, W He - International Journal of Control, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, both the closed-form dynamics and adaptive robust tracking control of a space
robot with two-link flexible manipulators under unknown disturbances are developed. The …

Intelligent manipulator with flexible link and joint: modeling and vibration control

M Shao, Y Huang, VV Silberschmidt - Shock and Vibration, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a finite‐element (FE) model of a manipulator with a flexible link and
flexible joint as well as embedded PZT actuators and proposes a corrected rebuilt reduced …