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Conclusions and Future Work

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The last chapter concludes this book by reiterating the main results of the work, with a more in-detail discussion of its conclusions. It also presents a summary of all the proposed work and open topics mentioned along with the monograph.

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Botelho, A., Parreira, B., Rosa, P.N., Lemos, J.M. (2021). Conclusions and Future Work. In: Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75696-3_5

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