Autonomous target capturing of free-floating space robot: Theory and experiments

Robotica

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-445

  Xu, Wenfu ^a   Liang, Bin ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Xu, Yangsheng ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

On orbital service; Path planning; Space robot; Target capturing; Visual information

Indexed keywords

ON-ORBITAL SERVICE; PATH PLANNING; SPACE ROBOT; TARGET CAPTURING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TARGETS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 67651149922     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574708004839     Document Type: Article

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