Abstract：[Objective] The assembly of spacecraft components plays an important role in their production, and the quality and efficiency of assembly have a direct impact on the quality and efficiency of their production. Currently, spacecraft components are often constructed by hand, which results in low accuracy and efficiency. The aerospace industry's research focus is on utilizing robots to complete the assembly tasks of spacecraft components, which can improve the quality and efficiency of their production. The current assembly robots mostly use the position control mode, which measures the relative pose between the assembly features of two spacecraft components and then moves the robot to complete the robotic assembly tasks according to the measurement results. In this control mode, assembly errors are unavoidable due to measurement and robot motion errors, which will result in a huge contact force between the two contact surfaces of the spacecraft components. Excessive contact forces can damage the surface quality and coatings of spacecraft components, ultimately affecting their service lives. Therefore, the contact forces are required to be controlled by compliance control. The control parameters in the current study of compliance control are established based on the operator's experience, which is closely related to the contact forces. Because the spacecraft components are manufactured in small batches, pre-assembly cannot be used to determine the control parameters without damaging their surface quality and coatings. And improper control parameters can lead to uncontrolled contact forces. [Methods] To address this issue, a compliance control method is proposed in this paper based on the classical admittance control, which can adaptively adjust the control parameters according to the contact forces and system status. In this adaptive compliance control, the target pose and stiffness matrix are changed during the assembly process. This research examines the control effects of adaptive compliance, position, and classical admittance controls to validate the practicality of this strategy. Taking the control moment gyroscope (CMG) assembly task as an example, this research designs and develops a CMG robotic assembly prototype. The F/T sensor is installed between the CMG and the robot's end-effector to measure the contact forces during the assembly process. And Kalman filtering is utilized in this paper to filter the measurement noise of the F/T sensor. [Results] The position and orientation of the CMG were modified according to the adaptive compliance control presented in this study. After adjusting the position and orientation, the CMG's contact surface and the mounted base's contact surface were fitted together, and the contact forces of the two surfaces were guaranteed to be small. [Conclusions] The outcomes of the simulation and experiment results show that adaptive compliance control has advantages, including fast convergence, minimal residual contact force, and adaptive adjustment of the control parameters. Additionally, the adaptive compliance control suggested in this study can be quickly applied to various spacecraft component assembly tasks. This method establishes the theoretical and technical foundation for autonomous robotic assembly of spacecraft components and is expected to be employed for real-world spacecraft component assembly tasks.
陈书清, 李铁民. 基于自适应柔顺控制的航天器部件装配[J]. 清华大学学报（自然科学版）, 2023, 63(11): 1808-1819.
CHEN Shuqin, LI Tiemin. Assembly of spacecraft components based on adaptive compliance control. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2023, 63(11): 1808-1819.
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