PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations
This work contributes a reaction wheel and two force/torque-sensed robotic arms with interchangeable end-effectors, integrated as first-class control actuators through a unified ROS 2 abstraction layer, and builds a reinforcement-learning training environment and digital twin and a controller that exploits these added...