Abstract
The patent’s assignee is California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Californi a, United States).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“In legacy systems, in-space assembly can often implement d eployable structures by initially stowing thesegments in a chassis. After launc h the segments can be unstowed and proximated by a robotic arm.Alignment may of ten be achieved through robotic arm manipulation and/or inherent fully constrain edfeatures on each segment. Contact, precise location, and preloading are typic ally facilitated by fullyconstrained mechanisms integrated within the segments, and/or actuated by the robotic arm.
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