Operations and control of the mobile instrument deployment device on the surface of Mars

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 837-844

  Schilling, K ^a   Richter, L ^b   Bernasconi, M ^c   Jungius, C ^d   Garcia Marirrodriga, C ^e  

^a Steinbeis Transferzentrum ARS/FH R   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Oerlikon Space AG   (Switzerland)

^d JES Jungìus Electron Syst ^*  (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

autonomous vehicles; Mars exploration; mobile robots; navigation; space vehicles; system concepts

Indexed keywords

MARS EXPLORATION; MOBILE INSTRUMENT DEPLOYMENT DEVICE;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MACHINE DESIGN; MOTION CONTROL; PLANETARY LANDERS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SPACE PROBES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031171853     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(97)00068-3     Document Type: Article

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