In the first part, this article presents an overview of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC)
methodologies developed for space manipulators to perform in-orbit robotic missions …

Abstract Space robotics is considered one of the most promising approaches for on-orbit
servicing (OOS) missions such as docking, berthing, refueling, repairing, upgrading …

Capture and removal of space debris are challenging in robotic on-orbit servicing activities.
A large portion of space debris does not possess any graspable features, which makes the …

Free-flying space manipulator systems, in which robotic manipulators are mounted on a free-
flying spacecraft, are envisioned for assembling, maintenance, repair, and contingency …

Target capturing is an essential and key mission for tethered space robot (TSR) in future on-
orbit servicing, and it is quite meaningful to investigate the stabilization method for TSR …

Aiming at the trajectory tracking of a free-flying flexible-joint space robot (FFSR) with
unknown time-varying disturbances and input saturation, we develop a robust control law …

This article investigates the challenging problem for the fixed-time trajectory tracking control
of free-flying space manipulator under output constraints and actuator faults. A novel fixed …

The combined spacecraft is increasingly demanded to accomplish various types of space
missions. Therefore, the dynamics and control technologies of combined spacecraft are …

In the near future robotic systems will be playing an increasingly important role in space
applications such as repairing, refueling, re-orbiting spacecraft and cleaning up the …

In this paper, the dynamic equations of flexible cooperative manipulators that are
kinematically and dynamically constrained to an object and are placed on a non-holonomic …