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Mission / Earth orbit

Int-Ball

JAXA · 2017–now · also Int-Ball2, JEM Internal Ball Camera

JAXA's free-flying camera robots inside the Kibo module, operated from the ground to reduce crew time spent on filming.

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Papers: 11
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Microgravity Mobility & Free-Flyers10
HRI & Teleoperation3
Guidance, Dynamics & Control2
Manipulation & Grasping2
Perception & State Estimation2
Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking2

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IEEE Aerospace3
iSpaRo2
IAC1
ICRA1
IROS1
iSpaRo Workshop1

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Astrobee3
CIMON2
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Reinforcement Learning based 6-DoF Maneuvers for Microgravity Intravehicular Docking: A Simulation Study with Int-Ball2 in ISS-JEM

Aman Arora, Matteo El-Hariry, Miguel Olivares-MendeziSpaRo Workshop 2025Dec 15, 2025

Space × Robotics × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Learning-based Methods Microgravity Mobility & Free-Flyers Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking Int-Ball

Dec 15, 2025