On January 25, 1984, President Reagan announced a United States program to place a permanent space station in orbit in 1992. The Congressional Bill appropriating the funding of this program requires that a significant portion of the program funds be for the development of new automation and robotics technologies not in use on existing spacecraft. To assist it in developing plans to meet this requirement, NASA established an Automation and Robotics Panel in August 1984. This is a summary of the full report prepared by the panel and presented to NASA. It is noted that this report to NASA is advisory only, and that for a variety of reasons, including funding, that is actually implemented will differ from the recommendation. Nevertheless, the report represents the current thinking of a group of scholars and practitioners in automation and robotics.
Automation and robotics for the space station: recommendations
Empfehlungen fuer Automatisierung und Robotertechnik in einer Weltraumstation
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; AES-21 , 5 ; 735-743
1985
9 Seiten
Article (Journal)
English
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