Autonomy capabilities of European deep space probes

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-30

  Schilling, K ^a,c,d   De Lafontaine, J ^b   Roth, H ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES RAVENSBURG WEINGARTEN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Steinbeis Center for Technology Transfer in Applied Computer and Software Engineering ^*

^d Steinbeis Center for Technology Transfer in Applied Computer and Software Engineering (ARS)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Attitude control; Autonomy; Computer simulation; Descent control; Remote control; Robots; Space vehicles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNAR MISSIONS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; AUTONOMY; DESCENT CONTROL; SPACE VEHICLES;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0029776256     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162465     Document Type: Article

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