`FRIEND' robot, space telerobot for rescue and recovery ofastronauts in space stations

摘要

Deals with the design, modelling and construction of a prototypeof a space telerobot for the rescue and recovery of astronauts in thearea around a space station. The objective of the FRIEND robot project(an acronym of Flying Robot with Intelligently Ended Nursing Dexterity)is the testing of a telerobotised system controlled by a remoteoperator. The FRIEND robot is designed and constituted by a mechanicalstructure with two arms, an autonomous energy source, a sensor andmotion control structure, a visual recognition system which acts asoperator support, an expert intelligent system memorised in the computerfor alternative choices in the stage of rescue and recovery of anastronaut in an emergency