NASA Contest: Electro-Mechanic Arm for AstroBee
I won another NASA contest from the AstroBee series. NASA is developing a (new) robotic assistant for the International Space Station (ISS) called AstroBee. This assistant navigates all over the ISS autonomously, helping astronauts with tasks such as camcording and sensor monitoring for example. NASA decided to crowdsource the development of a key functionality of the system: A robot arm for the AstroBee, so it became capable of perching to the ISS walls and keep a fixed position when required. So NASA has posted a few contests in order to address this design issue from different perspectives. I decided to participate and I was lucky to won... again. This time the contest consisted of designing the electro-mechanical system for the robotic arm, from the mechanical architecture to actuator selection for example. Thank you NASA for having the initiative to engage people in your projects. Being able to take a look in a real NASA project was amazing.
Über Mich
Hi, I´m Marco. I'm running my own automation company and have been freelancing for more than two years here in Mexico. Previously I worked as an embedded software engineer for a big German company. I consider myself as someone who strives for good ideas, who knows how to back them up in solid principles of engineering design, in order to turn them into functional and ready-to-produce devices.
