Planetary Rovers Robotic Exploration of the Solar System /

The increasing adoption of terrain mobility - planetary rovers - for the investigation of planetary surfaces emphasises their central importance in space exploration. This imposes a completely new set of technologies and methodologies to the design of such spacecraft - and planetary rovers are indee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellery, Alex (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Astronautical Engineering,
Subjects:
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
Automotive engineering.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Automotive Engineering.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Planetary environments
  • Survey of past rover missions
  • Rover mobility and locomotion
  • Rover sensorimotor control systems
  • Rover vision-fundamentals
  • Rover vision-advanced capabilities
  • Autonomous navigation-behaviors and architectures
  • Autonomous navigation-self-localization and mapping (SLAM)
  • Rover path planning
  • Robotic sample acquisition
  • Onboard autonomous science
  • Case study: Robotic exploration of Europa
  • Future rover concepts. .

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