Ranger Satellite Servicing System autonomously grabs an object
4 February 2005 and 28 January 2005
As part of the autonomy effort for ASTEP, one of the Ranger Satellite Servicing
System's dexterous manipulators is being used to develop the procedures for autonomously
grasping objects in the Arctic. During the month of January and February, the
software team developed the techniques to autonomously move the Ranger dexterous
arm to grasp an object.
Photos are
online as well as a few videos from the
28th
of January (2.5 Mb QuickTime) and the
4th of
February (6 Mb QuickTime). The video from February 4th shows the task from two different camera angles.