Study on Visual Simulation of Space Robots Operations

The simulation of the complicated mission process of space robots with advanced visual software is an important method in the study of space robots.Aiming at the visual simulation of space robots operations,this paper analyzes the mission process and the solid models of space robots are devised with volume modeling methods basing on the hierarchical modeling idea.The specific function of space robots is realized with DLL in conjunction with configure file;data exchanging is realized by dynamic data exchange management and multi-rate sampling interpolation as well.The mission process of space robots operations are perfectly simulated in good authenticity with the secondary development of the software Orbiter utilizing OrbiterAPI.Methods investigated in this paper can be extended to simulation of other kinds of spacecraft system.