SURVEY OF REMOTE HANDLING IN SPACE

Abstract

A survey of industrial opinion on remote handling in space was undertaken to document early concepts and to identify areas of agreement, areas of conflict, and unique ideas relating to the subject. Seven industrial concerns and one military agency provided papers on the role of remote handling in space. These papers are discussed in terms of: (a) remote operations of which there are five major categories-maintenance, assembly, experimentation, transfer operations, and emergency operations; (b) space vehicle design-the manned lightweight capsule, with anthropomorphic gloves, stabilization arms, window ports, and two to three manipulator arms, being representative; (c) manipulator designconcerning actuation, configuration, control, and feedback systems; and (d) space environment factors-vision, weightlessness, temperature fluctuations, high-energy radiation, and micrometeorite collisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0288863

Entities

People

  • D. F. Baker

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Biomedical Research
  • Control Systems
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Psychology
  • Space Environments
  • Space Stations
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers