KRAKEN Robotic Arm
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (AMERGINT)
Compact 7-DOF, 1-meter robotic manipulator with a hot-swappable end-effector interface and per-joint force sensing, for in-space assembly, manufacturing and servicing.
Technical specifications
- Degrees of freedom
- 7 DOF
- Arm length
- 1 m (standard configuration)
- Stowed volume
- 19 cm x 27 cm x 36 cm
- End effector
- Hot-swappable end-effector interface
- Joint sensing
- High-speed force sensing in each joint; embedded controller with force-control capability
- Flight heritage
- Flight Heritage designation
About
The KRAKEN robotic arm is TUI’s compact, high-performance, cost-effective manipulator built to enable small spacecraft to perform in-space assembly, manufacturing, and servicing missions. The standard KRAKEN configuration is a 1-meter, 7-degree-of-freedom arm that stows into a 19 cm x 27 cm x 36 cm volume, though KRAKEN’s modular design allows it to be configured to optimize for specific mission applications. It integrates a hot-swappable end-effector interface enabling the arm to use a variety of tools, with high-speed force sensing in each joint and an embedded controller supporting force-control capabilities, making it suited to the next generation of small robotic spacecraft. KRAKEN has flight heritage and has supported TUI’s NASA-funded MANTIS and FabLab programs, and past collaborations with Olis Robotics explored teleoperation and variable-autonomy command and control for the arm.
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