United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

John W Mulvaney

Mehdi R Khorrami

Travis L Turner

David P Lockard

Craig L Streett

Albert R Allen

William D Chapin

Matthew K Mahlin

Laura M White

Benjamin N Kelley

Iok M Wong

John R Cooper

Erik E Komendera

Samantha H G Chapin

James H Neilan

Joshua N Moser

Matthew P Vaughan

Scott E Brynildsen

Methods, systems and devices of the various embodiments may provide slat-cove fillers configured to reduce leading-edge slat noise on aircraft, such as transport aircraft.

Slat-cove filler for wing structure of an aircraft

Methods and systems to control stacked hexapod platforms for use as tools, which function with both high accuracy and high precision are provided. In some embodiments, the methods and systems include a convergence of modern control theory, and machine learning. Furthermore, some embodiments provide control algorithms to carry out autonomous in-space assembly operations using assemblers. Some embodiments provide methods and systems which combine long-reach low precision manipulators and smaller, high-precision assembler with interchangeable tools.

Modular and reconfigurable assembler system for autonomous in-space assembly

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Yorktown, VA, United States of America

John W Mulvaney