Planetary Rovers Robotic Exploration of the Solar System /

• Main Author: Ellery, Alex (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Automotive engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Automotive Engineering.

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...

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. .