Robot Compliance Control SME - OMES III

Robot Compliance Control SME 

Description 

Intuitive Machines is a Joint Venture owner under Space & Technology Solutions of the NASA Goddard OMES III contract. The Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services (OMES III) Contract supports NASA’s Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate, located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The scope of the contract includes multidiscipline engineering services for the study, design, systems engineering, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, and operations of spaceflight, airborne, and ground system hardware and software, including development and validation of new technologies to enable future space and science missions. Programs currently supported include Joint Polar Satellite System program, and NASA’s Exploration and In-space Services (NExIS) projects division. 

Provide multidisciplinary subject matter expertise to NExIS in the area of Robotic Compliance Control. The contractor shall conduct research into control methods for compliant operation of remote space robotic systems. This shall include the development of advanced controllers as well as the tuning of compliant controllers for both ground test and space-based robots. 

 
 The work activities may include: 

• Provide multidisciplinary subject matter expertise to NExIS in the area of Robotic Compliance Control. 
• The contractor shall conduct research into control methods for compliant operation of remote space robotic systems. 
• This shall include the development of advanced controllers as well as the tuning of compliant controllers for both ground test and space-based robots.
   

Position Requirements 

• 25+ years of experience required.
• Responsible for interface control during development and maintenance activities and for the integration and test planning necessary to verify that system requirements have been realized at all levels of assembly. 
• Perform engineering assessment of systems or subsystems using methodologies and techniques appropriate to the systems engineering discipline, including risk management, requirements management, reliability analysis, fault tree analysis, and fishbone analysis
• Provide expert advice and support during the entire life cycle from the specification and analysis of requirements, through the design of the hardware or software, procurement, fabrication, assembly, integration and test, and launch and operation.
• Identify and solve technical problems during all phases. 
• Develop technical reports and documentation. 
• Functioning as a lead engineer, provide technical direction for the definition and development of a system or subsystem and coordinate all appropriate engineering activities.
• If functioning as a multidisciplinary subject matter expert, perform engineering analysis, design, development, test or troubleshooting with knowledge over two or more technical disciplines, including detectors, instruments, electrical, mechanical, thermal, materials, software, ground operations, flight dynamics, mission analysis, or other.