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Teleoperation and robotics in space

edited by Steven B. Skaar, Carl F. Ruoff

(Progress in astronautics and aeronautics, v. 161)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c1994

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

Increasingly, space teleoperators and robots (space telerobots) will take the place of astronauts in planetary and lunar scientific missions to reduce cost and risk. Terrestrial robots have much in common with space robots, but there are important physical differences arising from weightlessness, vacuum, the thermal environment, and the need to minimize mass. Because the technology for building intelligent space robots does not yet exist, they must be supervised by human operators. This book addresses these concerns, providing extensive, well-illustrated descriptions of existing, planned, and laboratory space telerobot systems, international designs, the role and capabilities of humans in system control and supervision, levels of control autonomy, the economic trade-offs of manned versus telerobotic space operations, and dynamics and control. The book provides engineers, scientists, managers, policymakers and students with the underlying technical issues associated with human supervised space robots and the design, justification and use of practical space telerobot systems.

Table of Contents

  • Overview of Space Telerobotics
  • Economics of Automation in Space - Implications of Automated Versus Manned Operations
  • Human Enhancement and Limitation in Teleoperation
  • Toward Advanced Teleoperation in Space
  • Supervised Autonomy for Space Telerobotics
  • Automatic Planning in Robotic Applications
  • Versatile and Precise Vision-Based Manipulation
  • Tutorial Overview of the Dynamics and Control of Satellite-Mounted Robots
  • Reorientation of Free-Flying Multibody Structure Using Appendage Movement
  • Stability and Control of Robotic Space Manipulators
  • Teleoperation - From the Space Shuttle to the Space Station
  • Use of Manipulators in Assembly of Space Station Freedom
  • Space Station Robotics Task Validation and Training. (Part contents).

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Details

  • NCID
    BA23560799
  • ISBN
    • 1563470950
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Washington, DC
  • Pages/Volumes
    502 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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