The NASA/UCF Advanced Life Support Automated remote Manipulator project

摘要

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biomedical program OFfice, Design Engineering Advanced Systems and Analyssi Division, and the Uniersity of Central Florida Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are currently working together on the design, fabrication, and implementation of the advanced life support automated redmote manipulator. Once completed, the ALSARM robotic arm will be integrated into the controlled Ecological Life suppport systems readboard project Biomass Production Chamber, located at the life sciences support Facility at Kennedy Space Center, The goal of this collaborative effort between NASA and UCF is twofold: first, it provides undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to gain vital experience in the "rel world" of engineering design. Second, it introduces KSC's next step in the development of a life support system to be used on a future human-tended mission wherein regular resupply from earth world beimpractical if not impossible.9p.