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Skyworker
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Head: William Red L. Whittaker
Contact: Peter Staritz

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: SRI and FRC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

The Skyworker Project, funded by NASA, will create a team of mobile manipulators capable of walking over extensive space solar power stations and performing the assembly, inspection, and maintenance tasks necessary for operating them outside the effective range of astronaut construction crews. We will demonstrate a prototype manipulator in April 2000.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Sarjoun Skaff - Visiting Scholar <sarjoun@gmail.com>
• Peter Staritz - PhD Student, RI
• Christopher Urmson - Dir of Tech for Urban Grand Challenge <curmson@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] David Wettergreen - Assoc. Research Professor <dsw@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] William Red L. Whittaker - University Professor <red@ri.cmu.edu>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Skyworker: a robot for assembly, inspection and maintenance of large scale orbital facilities
  P. Staritz, S. Skaff, C. Urmson, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '01), Vol. 4, May, 2001, pp. 4180 - 4185. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [465 KB] copyrighted

• Skyworker: Robotics for Space Assembly, Inspection and Maintenance
  S. Skaff, P. Staritz, and W.L. Whittaker
  Space Studies Institute Conference, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [215 KB] copyrighted

• Robotics for Assembly, Inspection, and Maintenance of Space Macrofacilities
  W.L. Whittaker, C. Urmson, P. Staritz, B. Kennedy, and R. Ambrose
  AIAA Space 2000 Conference and Exposition, AIAA, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 500, Reston, VA 20191, September, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [331 KB] copyrighted