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A Deployable Four-Finger Payload for Teleoperated Free-Flying Manipulation with Astrobee

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

This article presents a bimanual teleoperation pipeline and conceptual design of a deployable four-finger payload for intra-vehicular free-flyers. Future habitats in low-Earth orbit (LEO) will require systems to perform mundane tasks like cargo handling and maintenance during crewed and uncrewed periods. The gripper payload provides 17 manipulation degrees-of-freedom (DoF) through four independently actuated fingers on a linear rail system. To control it, a virtual reality (VR) device interface maps the human ground operator's hand motions to the finger pairs, their separation to the rail, and

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