A modular approach for the design of the Alicia3 climbing robot for industrial inspection

Industrial Robot

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 148-158

  Longo, Domenico ^a   Muscato, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inspection; Robotics; Surface texture

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INSPECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTICS; SCAFFOLDS; SEALING (CLOSING); TEXTURES;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; SURFACE TEXTURES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 1542303766     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910410522838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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