Robot Project

This will be a virtual software simulation project for an in orbit assembly robot.  One application would be for the construction of a space station.

Our parent corporation, Triakis, has built two simulation projects for NASA: 

Mini AERCam

NASA STEREO Experiment

We have experience simulating subsystems for spacecraft.  e.g. Reaction Wheels, Thrusters, Star Traker, Mil1553 Comm, Solar Power, Ground Comm, and much more. 

System Requirements, Robin Constructing Space Station

A.1-5.---Introduction, Purpose, Audience, Intended Use, Product Scope

S.1.---Robex shall handle slidable extrusions to build a Space Station Torus.

S.2.---The Space Station Torus shall be initialized by Robex building a Seed Ring.

S.3.---Robex shall have thrustors, reaction wheels, articulated arms to control it's movement along the uninitialized seed ring, and arms and hands for handling parts and tools.

S.4.---The Seed Ring shall be a minimal cross section of slidable extrusions connected in a circle.

S.5.---The Seed Ring diameter shall be TBD.  Probably small e.g. 100m.

Note: The "Stanford Torus" has a Diameter of 2000m for 1G at 1 RPM.  We aren't going there.

Our thinking is that a small fraction of 1G centrifugal force would be ok when operational.

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RB.1.---Robex shall act autonomously or by remote control.

RB.2.---

HW.1.---Robex's main components shall be...

HW.2.---

SR.1.---The seed ring inital cross-section shall be (fig 1).

SR.2.---

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Extrusion Materials and Dimensions:

Note: Triakis simulators are used for software verification of aircraft systems.

Triakis has documented three stages of system development:

1. Executable Specifications (ES).  Executes the high level electro/mechanical/software system requirements.

2. Pseudo Processor - refines the ES by running the native (NASA) C/C++ embedded source code by intercepting memory accesses and rtos functions.

3. Detailed executable - runs the binary using a model of the cpu, e.g. ARM.