Overview
- Discusses relevant planetary environments to rover missions, stressing the Moon and Mars
- Includes a brief survey of previous rover missions
- Comprehensively covers autonomous navigation, path planning and multi-rover formations on other planets
- Presents a special case study on the exploration of Europa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Astronautical Engineering (ASTROENG)
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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 indeed, first and foremost, spacecraft. This introduces vehicle engineering, mechatronics, robotics, artificial intelligence and associated technologies to the spacecraft engineer’s repertoire of skills. Planetary Rovers is the only book that comprehensively covers these aspects of planetary rover engineering and more. The book:
• discusses relevant planetary environments to rover missions, stressing the Moon and Mars;
• includes a brief survey of previous rover missions;
• covers rover mobility, traction and control systems;
• stresses the importance of robotic vision in rovers for both navigation and science;• comprehensively covers autonomous navigation, path planning and multi-rover formations on other planets;
• introduces sample acquisition and autonomous science – with an emphasis on astrobiology – as the raison d’être of rover missions;
• presents a special case study on the exploration of Europa;
• discusses future rover concepts, including a brief exploration of the role of biomimetics.
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Book Title: Planetary Rovers
Book Subtitle: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
Authors: Alex Ellery
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03259-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03258-5Published: 19 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56845-3Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03259-2Published: 30 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 702
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 119 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Automotive Engineering
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Electronics, Energy, Utilities & Environment, Engineering, IT & Software, Materials & Steel, Oil, Gas & Geosciences