ERAU-Prescott Robotics

Space Robotics
The Space Robotics Laboratory at ERAU Prescott
is located in the STEM Education Center (Bldg. 76).
Hexapod Mobile Robot
Six-legged robotics platform has been designed
by team PreSept for agile obstacle avoidance.
Capstone Class 2017
Team members from left to right: Robert Noble,
Austin Wild, Jennifer Stiles, Nick Harris,
Hilary Nelson, and Andrew Dittrich.
Capstone Class 2017
Team members from left to right: Steven Rudrich,
Sarah Pearson, Magnus Bergman, Kristin Sandager,
David Olson, Davis Fischer, Kevin Horn,
Mariah Sampson, Evan Kline, and Trentin Post.
Capstone Class 2018
Team members from left to right: Mathew Todd,
Jacqueline Worley, Grayson Lynch,
Chad Abramson, Garrison Bybee, Riley Griffin,
Morgan Garone, and Sara El Baissi.
Capstone Class 2018
Team members from left to right: Justin Maza,
Theodore Lilyeblade, Clayton Walker,
Bruce Nelson, Jonathan Buchholz, Andrew Petersen,
Emma Hutchison, and Alexandra Indritz.

SCENARIO

The Simulated Control ENvironment for Active Robots in Orbit (SCENARIO) project seeks to re-create the motion exhibited by a planar space robot on an air-bearing surface with force-feedback control of a customized Hirata Cartesian Manipulator.

Planar Space Robot on Air-Bearing Table:

Preliminary Design Presentation:

Detailed Design Presentation:

Publications ¹A. Worthington, T. Anderson, L. Lucchese, M. Markham, L.M. de Vasconcelos, D.R. Isenberg, “Development and Monte-Carlo Sensitivity Analysis of Identical Planar Space Robots for the Purpose of Validating the Recreation of On-Orbit Motion”, Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL, 2019