Research Summaries

Back Project and Development of Autonomous Floating Spacecraft Simulators

Fiscal Year 2011
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Romano, Marcello
Sponsor Naval Research Laboratory (Navy)
Summary This is a proposal to develop and integrate two new floating spacecraft simulators. These are autonomous robot which can float via air pads on a flat surface. Each robot has a suite of sensor (IMU, Magnetometer), actuators (8 supersonic nozzle thrusters), on-board computer (PC104 form factor), and navigation and control real time software architecture.
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