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The paper describes a sensing system based on a camera and a visual pattern, developed to track displacements of the centre of gravity of antenna reflectors during unfolding. The sensing system has been integrated and tested on an industrial robot manipulator, in order to simulate the absence of gravitational forces and to avoid damages on the motors during the test of the unfolding procedure on Earth. The whole research has been supervised and financed by Airbus Defense & Space.
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The research is the result of a collaboration between Icam and Airbus Defence & Space, that financed the whole project.
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D’Attanasio, S., Charron, J. (2019). Development of a Sensing System for Zero Gravity Simulation Using a Robot Manipulator to Test Antenna Reflector Unfolding in Satellites. In: Gasparetto, A., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) Mechanism Design for Robotics. MEDER 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 66. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00365-4_6
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