A low-cost lightweight climbing robot for the inspection of vertical surfaces

Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-96

  La Rosa, Guido ^a   Messina, Michele ^a   Muscato, Giovanni ^a   Sinatra, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climbing robot; Industrial inspections; NDT controls; Pneumatic systems

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; GRIPPERS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PNEUMATIC CONTROL;

LIGHTWEIGHT CLIMBING ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036466547     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4158(00)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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