In this paper we present the design, development and space test of the world's first precise telerobotic system boarded on an unmanned space vehicle, ETS-VII (Engineering Test Satellite VII). The robotic system has features of skill and autonomy using a three-finger multisensory hand at a work site in space and computer graphicsbased desktop telerobotics at a control site on the ground. We deve...

The Engineering Test Satellite VII (ETS-VII), an unmanned spacecraft equipped with a 2-m long, six-degree-of-freedom manipulator arm, was developed and launched by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). ETS-VII has successfully carried out a variety of on-board experiments with its manipulator arm, and these key technologies are essential for an orbital free-flying robot. These...

Recently, huge number of e-mails is sent and received. These e-mails are classified into spam and non spam ones which are processed with the same priority. To guarantee a higher priority service to non-spam e-mails than that is provided to spam e-mails, a two-priority queue scheme was proposed. There are some drawbacks in the two-priority queue scheme such as it fails to provide a Quality of Se...

We present a conceptual design for a scalable (10-50 meter segmented filled-aperture) space observatory operating at UV-optical-near infrared wavelengths. This telescope is designed for assembly in space by robots, astronauts or a combination of the two, as envisioned in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration. Our operations concept for this space telescope provides for assembly and check-out in a...

Purpose: In this paper, the minimal repair-replacement warranty policy is used to carry out a warranty cost analysis with warranty servicing times and failure times that are statistically correlated to bivariate distributions. Methods: Based on the developed approach by Park and Pham (2012a), we investigate the property of the Freund’s bivariate exponential distribution and obtain the number of...