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Design of a novel deployable mechanism for capturing tumbling debris
2019
Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
The large number of man-made debris stemming for decades of space exploration threatens the safety of future space activities. It is therefore urgent to perform Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions to maintain the access to usable orbital space. This paper proposes a novel deployable end-effector and detumbling mechanism to capture tumbling debris. Three mechatronic subsystems for the capture, transmission, and actuation are highly integrated in the end-effector allowing for compact storage
doi:10.1139/tcsme-2018-0146
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