Nina Patarinsky-Robson

Texas A&M University, University of California, Irvine

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Nina Patarinsky-Robson is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on the critical challenge of failure recovery for robotic manipulators in space exploration. Her research addresses a fundamental problem: how to keep robot arms functional after joint failures, particularly when mounted on mobile platforms like exploratory rovers. Her most influential work, "Failure Recovery Planning for an Arm Mounted on an Exploratory Rover" (2009, 7 citations), introduces innovative strategies that leverage the rover's mobility and the manipulator's ability to regrasp tools to compensate for failed joints. This approach effectively adds design degrees of freedom to crippled systems. In her complementary study, "Exploring new strategies for failure recovery of crippled robot manipulators" (2009, 3 citations), she extends this work by demonstrating the benefits of combining velocity and acceleration kinematics for PUMA-like manipulators with failed joints. Her contributions are particularly valuable for space robotics, where component failures cannot be easily repaired, making autonomous recovery essential for mission success. Patarinsky-Robson's work provides foundational strategies for creating more resilient and self-reliant robotic systems for extraterrestrial exploration.