Space Quarters Demonstrates Orbital Assembly Robot System DAIQ
The demonstration validates DAIQ's approach to building large space structures by having multiple small robots cooperate in orbit, bypassing the size limits imposed by rocket fairings.
Key Facts
- Space Quarters Co., Ltd. demonstrated orbital assembly and welding of building materials using a ground model of its DAIQ robot system.
- The DAIQ system uses multiple types of small robots that cooperate to extract, place, and join building materials in orbit.
- Conventional space structures are built on the ground and launched as finished products, limiting their size to the rocket's fairing diameter.
- DAIQ is mounted on a satellite with building materials, launched by rocket, and then autonomously constructs large structures in orbit.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Space Quarters Co., Ltd. has succeeded in demonstrating assembly and welding operations of building materials in orbit using a ground model of its self-developed orbital assembly robot system 'DAIQ'. The company released a video showing the composite small cooperative robot system in action, proving the feasibility of its technical concept for constructing large structures in space.
Space Quarters Co., Ltd. has released a video demonstrating orbital construction operations using its proprietary composite small cooperative robot system DAIQ. The company succeeded in demonstrating assembly and welding operations of building materials in orbit using a ground model of the system. This demonstrates the feasibility of DAIQ's technical concept, in which multiple types of small robots cooperate to construct large structures in space.
Conventionally, space structures are built on the ground and launched as finished products, limiting their size to the rocket's fairing diameter and requiring them to withstand launch acceleration and vibration. DAIQ is a composite cooperative system in which dedicated small robots handle the entire process of extracting, placing, and joining building materials. The system is mounted on a satellite along with building materials and launched by rocket, then autonomously constructs large structures in orbit.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- ASCII.jp 軌道上組立ロボットシステム「DAIQ」地上モデル組立・溶接動作実証に成功