双机械臂自主组装太阳能板,助力月球基地建设
Assembling Solar Panels by Dual Robot Arms Towards Full Autonomous Lunar Base Construction
- 设计视觉-控制-硬件一体化流程,实现双臂协同装配
- 实测验证可连接任意位置的模块化太阳能板
- 适用于月面基建等复杂太空任务,具工程落地价值
自阿波罗计划成功以来,人类正再度致力于重返月球,开展科学探索、资源开采和居住。未来几十年将聚焦于建设月球前哨站,机器人系统将在安全高效搭建太阳能发电塔等基础设施中发挥关键作用。类似国际空间站的建造方式,通过模块化运输组件并在轨组装是可行方案。本文聚焦于双机械臂系统的视觉、控制与硬件集成,提出一套专为太阳能板模块装配设计的感知与控制流程。定制化硬件在真实实验中完成测试,采用模块化太阳能板与主动-被动连接器,其抓取装置控制已融入整体流程。方法成功实现两机械臂对任意放置面板的有效连接,验证了视觉、控制与硬件系统在复杂太空应用中的无缝融合。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Since the successful Apollo program, humanity is once again aiming to return to the Moon for scientific discovery, resource mining, and inhabitation. Upcoming decades focus on building a lunar outpost, with robotic systems playing a crucial role to safely and efficiently establish essential infrastructure such as solar power generating towers. Similar to the construction of the International Space Station (ISS), shipping necessary components via modules and assembling them in situ should be a practical scenario. In this context, this paper focuses on the integration of vision, control, and hardware systems within an autonomous sequence for a dual-arm robot system. We explore a perception and control pipeline specifically designed for assembling solar panel modules, one of the benchmark tasks. Ad hoc hardware was designed and tested in real-world experiments. A mock-up of modular solar panels and active-passive connectors are employed, with the control of this grappling fixture integrated into the proposed pipeline. The successful implementation of our method demonstrates that the two robot manipulators can effectively connect arbitrarily placed panels, highlighting the seamless integration of vision, control, and hardware systems in complex space applications.
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