Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
Start Date
1-5-1997 1:00 PM
Description
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Biomedical Program Office (JJ-G), Design Engineering Advanced Systems and Analysis Division (DM-ASD), and the University of Central Florida (UCF) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) are currently working together on the design, fabrication, and implementation of the Advanced Life Support Automated Remote Manipulator (ALSARM). Once completed, the ALSARM robotic arm will be integrated into the Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) Breadboard Project Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), located at the Life Sciences Support Facility (LSSF) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The goal of this collaborative effort between NASA and UCF is twofold: first, it provides undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to gain vital experience in the “real world” of engineering design. Second, it introduces KSC’s next step in the development of a life support system to be used on a future human-tended mission wherein regular resupply from Earth would be impractical if not impossible.
Paper Session III-D - The Advanced Lift Support Automated Robotic Manipulator (ALSARM) Project
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Biomedical Program Office (JJ-G), Design Engineering Advanced Systems and Analysis Division (DM-ASD), and the University of Central Florida (UCF) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) are currently working together on the design, fabrication, and implementation of the Advanced Life Support Automated Remote Manipulator (ALSARM). Once completed, the ALSARM robotic arm will be integrated into the Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) Breadboard Project Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), located at the Life Sciences Support Facility (LSSF) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The goal of this collaborative effort between NASA and UCF is twofold: first, it provides undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to gain vital experience in the “real world” of engineering design. Second, it introduces KSC’s next step in the development of a life support system to be used on a future human-tended mission wherein regular resupply from Earth would be impractical if not impossible.
