Deployable Tensegrity Structures for Space Applications

By G. Tibert. 2002

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Shape memory polymers and their composites in aerospace applications: a review (2014, background): “antenna [183] and the tension truss antenna [184, 185].”
Tensegrity frameworks: Static analysis review. (2008, background): “This is especially important in space applications such as deployable antennas and masts [30, 75].”
Advances in deployable structures and surfaces for large apertures in space (2013, methodology): “This has led to evolutions of the network design, such as the ones proposed by You and Pellegrino [25] and Tibert and Pellegrino [26], in which both position and pretension are controlled.”
Design and control of compliant tensegrity robots through simulation and hardware validation (2014, background): “While these qualities have inspired studies of deployable antennae and other large space structures [8], the unique force distribution of tensegrity robots has only recently been investigated for planetary exploration [9].”
Tensegrity frameworks: Dynamic analysis review and open problems (2009, background): “Tensegrity were created by people coming from the art community (Snelson [81]) being rapidly applied to other disciplines such as in the architectural context, for structures such as geodesic domes (Fu [25]) or later in space engineering to develop deployable antennas (Tibert [94]).”
Design and control of tensegrity robots for locomotion (2006, background): “Their utility has also been recognized for the design of lightweight space structures such as deployable masts [17] and reflector antennas [27], [49].”