Product Description: There's no air in space. But robots don't care! Learn more about how these mechanical robonauts can help us understand more about the solar system in which we live.

Product Description: Focusing on future modern spacecraft, Michel van Pelt explains the exciting life of unmanned space explorers, making the technology, design, development, operation and results of modern space probe missions understandable by lay readers.

Product Description: Robotic technology offers two potential benefits for future space exploration. One benefit is minimizing the risk that astronauts face. The other benefit is increasing their productivity. Realizing the benefits of robotic technology in space will require solving several problems which are unique and now becoming active research topics...read more

Product Description: The return to the Moon will rely on a large robotic presence to support exploration and, later, to assist the building of the lunar base. This book examines the future vision, force control, and co-ordination strategies of space robotics supporting exploration missions.

Product Description: Some people say that space is the final frontier. But robots are making space much less mysterious. Robots and robotic probes have been exploring the planets and helping astronauts do research since the 1970s. Look inside to learn about incredible space robots and the amazing things that they have discovered about our solar system...read more

Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take?In Robots in Space, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these seemingly fanciful questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature—fictional as well as academic studies; outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations; and assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven’t spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies.Their discussion is as entertaining as it is edifying and their assertions are as sound as they are fantastical. Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.

Product Description: Space robots explore the distant planets of our solar system. And they help astronauts work in space. Get up close to the robots that make space exploration possible.

Product Description: Because outer space is a dangerous place for humans, scientists often send robots when theywant to explore. Exploring Space Robots gives details about robots on the Moon, on Mars, in the outer solar system, and at the International Space Station...read more

Product Description: Space Robots is a Capstone Press publication.

Through short, sharp sentences and up-close character profiles of robots, this series explores the developing world of robotics and includes hands-on activities.

Product Description: Contents- Preface- Overview of Smart Structures- Early Papers- Sensing, Actuation, and Control- System Identification and Control- Laboratory Experiments- Integrated Ground Demonstrations and Flight Experiments- Applications

Product Description: The author gives a rigorous, comprehensive coverage of space robotics. His mechatronic approach could be used as a general introduction to mechatronic engineering.

Product Description: This book is a broadly based introduction to automation and robotics in aerospace systems in general and associated research and developments in machine intelligence and systems autonomy in particular. A principal objective of this book is to identify and describe the most important, current research areas related to the symbiotic control of systems by human and machine intelligence and relate them to the requirements of aerospace missions...read more