An Introduction to Space Robotics
An Introduction to Space Robotics by Alex Ellery, published by Springer on August 17, 2000, spans 663 pages and is presented in English. This text offers a comprehensive overview of robotic spacecraft design, focusing on control systems and the integration of robotic and automated systems in space, which are expected to play a significant role in the future commercialization of the space environment.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of robotics techniques and control systems in the first half, which is notably mathematical. The latter half addresses spacecraft systems and the impact of robotic payloads, including discussions on financial and legal considerations often overlooked in technical literature. The book features the implementation of a free-flying robotic spacecraft called ATLAS (Advanced TeLerobotic Actuation System) as a practical example, while the techniques discussed are applicable to a wide range of space robotics scenarios.
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There is little doubt that robotic and automated systems in space will contribute considerably to the future commercialisation of the space environment. This text provides a systems eye view of robotic spacecraft design with an emphasis on control systems.
The first half of the book introduces the techniques of robotics and robotic control, and is the most mathematical part of the book. The second half of the book deals with spacecraft systems themselves, and how a robotic-type payload influences them, including consideration of financial and legal issues which are often left out of technical texts.
Running through the book is the implementation of a freeflying robotic spacecraft called ATLAS (Advanced TeLerobotic Actuation System). However, the techniques presented in the book are completely general and the ATLAS spacecraft just serves as an example, albeit a very useful and economically viable space system.
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