Contemporary Planetary Robotics – An Approach toward Autonomous Systems

Yang Gao, FIET FRAeS, is the Professor of Space Autonomous Systems within Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. She heads the Surrey Technology for Autonomous Systems and Robotics (STAR) Lab that specialises in autonomy & modeling, visual navigation, modern control theories, robot soil interaction and biomimetic mechanisms with applications to spacecraft and robots alike. She brings over sixteen years of R&D experience in solving robotic system problems, in which she have been a Principle Investigator of internationally teamed projects funded by European and UK research funding bodies as well as commercial companies. Prof. Gao is also actively involved in real world space mission development and championing the Surrey Low-cost Space Engineering Approach within missions like ExoMars, Proba3, LM1, LPSR, CABLE, MoonLITE, and Moonraker.