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TORVEASTRO Project: Plans and Achievements

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Design Advances in Aerospace Robotics (TORVEASTRO 2023)

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TORVEASTRO project is outlined with the planned activity on problems for a design of a new space service robot for out space surveillance and maintenance of the orbital station structures. The proposal is based on a conceptual solution with three leg/arm limbs whose operation is actuated by cables with actuators inside the robot central body. The two-year project is successful worked out with design results of a novel solution whose operation is tested successfully in lab experiments with here-in summarized main results including the plans for the last period of the project.

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This work has been supported by grant Lazioinnova-POR214–2020-A0375–2020-36517 for the project TORVEASTRO that is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

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  1. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

  2. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

    Loredana Santo

  3. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ENEA, Rome, Italy

    Marco Paoloni

  4. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ENEA, Rome, Italy

    Giacomo Cupertino

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Ceccarelli, M. (2023). TORVEASTRO Project: Plans and Achievements. In: Ceccarelli, M., Santo, L., Paoloni, M., Cupertino, G. (eds) Design Advances in Aerospace Robotics. TORVEASTRO 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28447-2_1

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