As the space industry expands, the demand for innovative and sustainable tools is also on the rise. Therefore, Rovial Space company is working on an ambitious project that aims to use a robotics system for building and repairing space structures. One of these ideas is to realize large-scale assemblies to collect solar energy, using photovoltaic cells to generate high power (in excess of 100kW). This energy is then used either for space data centers, radars or to transfer energy back to space bases for lunar missions.
As a robotics engineer, my work during this project was centered around these main objectives:
The latter video demonstrates my contributions for creating an experimental proof of concept to validate the proposed controllers. Indeed, it shows the development and implementation of a low-level controller for the actuators, and a high-level controller for direct and inverse kinematics. It also shows the perception controller that guides the robotic system.