Research/ ORBITAL ROBOTICS
Int-Ball: Crew-Supportive Autonomous Mobile Camera Robot on ISS/JEM
Shinji Mitani, Masayuki Goto, Ryo Konomura, Yasushi Shoji, Keiji Hagiwara, Shuhei Shigeto, Nobutaka Tanishima
IEEE Aerospace 2019// 48 citations
Space × RoboticsORBITAL ROBOTICS
Technique
Microgravity Mobility & Free-Flyerstext match · HRI & Teleoperationtext match
Missions
Int-Ballnamed in title, abstract
This paper describes the development of The Japanese Experiment Module (called JEM) Internal Ball Camera (called Int-Ball) that autonomously moves inside the JEM pressurization section and shoots image and video of the object. The Int-Ball was launched as a payload of Dragon spacecraft by SpaceX Falcon 9 on June 4, 2017. First flight control demonstration was successfully conducted in JEM pressurization section. This paper also describes the initial checkout result.