Abstract
Currently Fokker Space B.V. is developing the European Robotic Arm (ERA) under contract of the European Space Agency (ESA). ERA's main mission is the assembly and servicing of the Russian Segment of the International Space Station Alpha. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the safety requirements, given the specific possibilities and limitations of a space robotic system, has resulted in the design of the Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) system of ERA. One example is used throughout the paper to illustrate the concept. Paper presented at the International Conference on Safety and Reliability ESREL'97, Lisbon, Portugal, June 17-20, 1997.
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