Description
Book SynopsisPresents the established principles underpinning space robotics with a thorough and modern approach. This text is perfect for professionals in the field looking to gain an understanding of real-life applications of manipulators on satellites, and of the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.
Trade Review'It is quite impressive to explain such complex and highly integrated subjects in such an understandable way. The book provides us a unified method for the dynamic motion modelling of different kinds of Space vehicles with various motion characteristics.' Zheng Jie Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology
'This book is useful particularly as a single source of information for the broad spectrum of technologies related to space robotics and would be a good overview of the most established concepts and methodologies for graduate students and researchers entering the field. It would be a suitable text for a dedicated taught module in space robotics, or as a guide for graduate study in robotics, dynamics and control related to space engineering … Overall, this book is a worthwhile read for capable space roboticists looking to build or extend their knowledge of the field.' Mark A. Post, The Aeronautical Journal
Table of Contents1. Introduction to robotic spacecraft and space robotics; 2. Space vehicle orbit dynamics; 3. Space vehicle attitude dynamics and control; 4. Manipulators on space platforms: dynamics and control; 5. Kinematics, dynamics and control of mobile robot manipulators; 6. Planetary rovers and mobile robotics; 7. Navigation and localization; 8. Sensing and estimation of spacecraft dynamics; Index.
