Review on space robotics: Toward top-level science through space exploration

Review on space robotics: Toward top-level science through space exploration

Robotics and autonomous systems have been instrumental to space exploration by enabling scientific breakthroughs and by fulfilling human curiosity and ambition to conquer new worlds. We provide an overview of space robotics as a rapidly emerging field, covering basic concepts, definitions, historical context, and evolution. We further present a technical road map of the field for the coming dec...

Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness

Autonomous behavior and onboard decision making is the backbone of robotic space exploration. The enormous distance and communication latency make such missions hardly controllable from Earth and external decision making may overlap and often contradict with the onboard decision making. We propose a behavior model based on some sort of “laziness” that helps spacecraft evaluate external instruct...

Space Robotics

This report surveys the possible applications and technical feasibility of robots in space. The hture of the space program in the time frame of 1980-2000 is first assessed, including space exploration, globzl infomiation services, and space utilization. Critical technologies needed to wpport die projected space program are considered, including general purpose, remote intelligence and manipulat...

Space Robotics

Space robotics

This paper reviews the topic of space robotics. As an introduction, some definitions and the rationale for space robotics are given. The main differences between space and terrestrial robots are highlighted, and it is shown that they are driven by the peculiar environmental, system, and programmatic constraints of space missions. Some common objections against the use of space robotics are ment...