This book provides readers with basic concepts and design theories for space robots and presents essential methodologies for implementing space robot engineerin

Presents a history of robot spacecraft and their use as well as related scientific concepts and brief biographies of important individuals.

Tethered Space Robot: Dynamics, Measurement, and Control discusses a novel tethered space robot (TSR) system that contains the space platform, flexible tether a

Based on lecture notes on a space robotics course, this book offers a pedagogical introduction to the mechanics of space robots. After presenting an overview of

Presents an introduction to human space exploration, discussing the evolution of space technology that has allowed the human race to go from merely orbiting the