Teaching

Robotic Manipulation in Space

2022–2026University of Luxembourg
Rendering of the two lab arms on the Moon with Earth overhead: a translucent OpenMANIPULATOR-X traces its planned path to a rock sample, and the PhantomX Pincher holds a cube above its task board

I prepare and teach the hands-on labs for third-semester students of the Master in Space Technologies and Business (formerly the Interdisciplinary Space Master). Students program real robot arms, in simulation and on hardware.

  • Robot kinematics
  • Motion planning
  • Robot control
  • Space applications

Lab code

Both labs drive MoveIt 2 from Python with my pymoveit2 library.

OpenMANIPULATOR-X ROS 2 Jazzy · MoveIt 2 · Gazebo · Docker snt-spacer/open_manipulator-RMinS PhantomX Pincher ROS 2 Galactic · MoveIt 2 · Gazebo · Docker snt-spacer/phantomx_pincher