Planetary Rovers: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System

by Alex Ellery

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662568454
• ISBN13: 9783662568453
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 702 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"