Space robotics and autonomous systems (Space RAS) play a critical role in the current and future development of mission-defined machines that can survive in space while performing exploration, assembly, construction, maintenance and servicing tasks. They represent a multi-disciplinary emerging field at the intersection of space engineering, terrestrial robotics, computer science and materials. The field is essential to humankind's ability to explore or operate in space; providing greater access beyond human spaceflight limitations in the harsh environment of space, and offering greater operational handling that extends astronauts' capabilities. Space RAS covers all types of robotics for the exploration of planet surfaces as well as robotics used in orbit around the Earth and the sensors needed by the platform for navigation or control.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Part I: Mobility and mechanisms
• Chapter 2: Wheeled planetary rover locomotion design, scaling, and analysis
• Chapter 3: Compliant pneumatic muscle structures and systems for extra-vehicular and intra-vehicular activities in space environments
• Chapter 4: Biologically-inspired mechanisms for space applications
• Part II: Sensing, perception and GNC
• Chapter 5: Autonomous visual navigation for spacecraft on-orbit operations
• Chapter 6: Inertial parameter identification, reactionless path planning and control for orbital robotic capturing of unknown objects
• Chapter 7: Autonomous robotic grasping in orbital environment
• Part III: Astronaut-robot interaction
• Chapter 8: BCI for mental workload assessment and performance evaluation in space teleoperations
• Chapter 9: Physiological adaptations in space and wearable technology for biosignal monitoring
• Chapter 10: Future of human-robot interaction in space
• Part: IV System engineering
• Chapter 11: Verification for space robotics
• Chapter 12: Cyber security of new space systems