Climbing the walls

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 10-19

  Tummala, R Lal ^a,b,f   Mukherjee, Ranjan ^a   Xi, Ning ^a   Aslam, Dean ^a   Dulimarta, Hans ^b   Xiao, Jizhong ^c,d   Minor, Mark ^c,e   Dangi, Girish ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f UTC Aerospace Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Biped design; Crawling robots; Embedded control; Flipping robots; Instrumented suction cups; Motion planning; Smart robotic feet; Underactuation; Wall climbing microrobots

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING;

SUCTION CUPS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036999210     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2002.1160067     Document Type: Article

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