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Slides from my talk at the Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute on October 9, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – SPACE MISSIONS
www.mdacorporation.com
CANADA’S ROLE IN SPACE – RECENT PROJECTS
Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute October 9, 2014
Leif Bloomquist, Senior Software Systems Engineer @ MDA
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Presentation Outline
Background: Canadarm and Canadarm2
Recent projects with Canadian participation:
• Phoenix Mars Lander and Curiosity Mars Rover• Next Generation Canadarm• OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission (Video)
Canadarm Legacy and Future (Video)
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Sputnik 1, 1957: Russia
Explorer 1, 1958: USA
Alouette 1, 1962
Canada, eh!
Canada was the third nation in space!
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44April 13, 2023
Early Steps: Canadarm
Credit: NASA
Launched in November, 1981 on STS-2
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Canadarm2 Arrives (2001)Canadarm 2
• 17.6m long• 7 joints• Mass: 1,800kg• Handling Capacity: 100,000kg• 2 latching end effectors (“hands”)• Force-moment sensing capability• Relocatable – can travel end-over-end• Electrically redundant• On-orbit or Ground-based control• PP: 2kW | Prms: 1360W
Credit: NASA
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Canadarm2• Deployed on the ISS: April 2001• STS -100: First Canadian space walk
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Chris Hadfield
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Space Station Assembly
7April 13, 2023Credit: NASA
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Dextre
• 3.5 m (12 ft) long
• Two manipulator arms, each with 7 joints
• One body roll joint
• Each arm fitted with an Orbit Replacement Unit/Tool Change-out Mechanism (OTCM)
• Force-Moment sensing capability
• 600 kg (1300 lbs) payload handling capacity
• One Latching End Effector
• Four special tools, carried in Tool Holder
Credit: NASA
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Phoenix Mars Lander (2007)
Canada’s contribution: MET Lidar
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MET Lidar “Light Radar”
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Mars Science Lab “Curiosity”
Launched Nov. 26, 2011Landed: August 2012 (Operating on Mars right now!)Canada’s contribution is the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)
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APXS Analyzing a Boulder on Mars
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The Next Generation Canadarm
• Project Duration: October 2009 to March 2012
• Produce a facility of ground-based prototypes of key elements for an end-to-end robotic on-orbit servicing system, demonstrating next generation technologies and operational capabilities for prepared and unprepared spaceflight hardware in earth orbit and beyond
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Background – Robotics for Servicing
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NGC Integrated Test Bed FacilityNext Generation Small Canadarm (NGSC) Test Bed
Next Generation Large Canadarm (NGLC) Test Bed
Proximity Operations (POST) Test BedSemi-Autonomous
Docking Simulator (SADS) Test Bed
Mission Operations Station(MOS)
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Mission Operations Station
Mission Planning display
Real or simulated mission video displays with telemetry driven overlays
3D virtual display driven by real or simulated telemetry
Graphical User Interface displays for command input and telemetry display
Hand controllers
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Mission Operations Station
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POST Test Bed• Operator-in-the-loop spacecraft proximity operations during
approach of Servicer Spacecraft to capture envelope of Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) of Client Spacecraft
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SADS Test Bed• Servicer to Client spacecraft docking interaction and
docking sensor performance
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NGLC Test Bed• Prototype and demonstrate a scalable concept for
telescoping booms for a large (15 m reach) manipulator
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NGSC Test Bed
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NGSC Test Bed
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NGSC Test Bed
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NGSC Test Bed
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OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA)
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VR6pNi70k
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OLA Canadian Team
• Canadian Space Agency (Montreal)• MDA Space Missions (Brampton)• Optech (Vaughan)• York University (Toronto)
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Acknowledgements
• Dr. Cameron Dickenson and Lynne Vanin @ MDA• NGC Project Team @ MDA and CSA• National Research Council (NRC) – Institute for Aerospace
Research• Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)