Adaptive RMRC for cooperative manipulation of a floating object by two free-based space robots

This paper deals with an adaptive resolved motion rate control (RMRC) method for a cooperative manipulation of a floating object by two free-based space robots with manipulators. Discussions as for the adaptive estimation are done on the divided generalized Jacobi matrices, which can be derived by system partition of the whole robot system. The method proposed here has an advantage that control algorithm of each robot is same even if a number of robots increases. The validity of the method was successfully confirmed by computer simulation.