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Aiming at the capture and docking requirements of spacecraft during in-orbit service, a new three-claw centring docking mechanism is designed which is compatible with different capture targets. The docking mechanism is driven by 2 independent driving units to realize the opening-closing and lifting-lowering capturing. The active capture mechanism is combined with the passive adapter. The large tolerance and compliant capture docking are realized by means of the capturing hand and elastic damping units distributed uniformly on the circumference of the active capture mechanism. A space microgravity docking physical verification platform based on visual measurement is established. The whole physical verification was carried out in the process of approaching and docking of the docking mechanism. The experimental results show that the docking mechanism could achieve reliable capture and docking with the non-cooperative targets under the condition of maximum attitude tolerance. The damping buffer units in the docking mechanism could effectively reduce the impact in the docking process.
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Deng, S., Li, K., Cai, H., Duan, J., Zhi, J., Wang, Y. (2022). Design and Analysis of Non-cooperative Target Space Docking Mechanism. In: Jia, Y., Zhang, W., Fu, Y., Zhao, S. (eds) Proceedings of 2022 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference. CISC 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 951. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6226-4_9
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