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Testbed for Cooperative Robotic Manipulators

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Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration

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This chapter serves three purposes. Firstly, it is intended to give an overview of many of the robotic engineering problems encountered when considering space-based applications. Secondly, during this overview, the approaches to some of these problems, as currently addressed in the robotic testbed facility at Rensselaer’s Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, are presented. Thirdly, throughout the survey of these space-based robotic engineering problems, the reader will be directed to the particular chapters in this book that treat these problems in more detail. It is intended that this chapter will motivate the contents of the book.

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  1. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 12180-3590, USA

    James F. Watson III, Donald R. Lefebvre, Alan A. Desrochers, Stephen H. Murphy & Keith R. Fieldhouse

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Watson, J.F., Lefebvre, D.R., Desrochers, A.A., Murphy, S.H., Fieldhouse, K.R. (1992). Testbed for Cooperative Robotic Manipulators. In: Desrochers, A.A. (eds) Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 168. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3634-5_1

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