Intelligent legged climbing service robot for remote maintenance applications in hazardous environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 142-152

  Luk, Bing L ^a   Cooke, David S ^b   Galt, Stuart ^c   Collie, Arthur A ^d   Chen, Sheng ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BOC Edwards   (United Kingdom)

^c Almos Systems   (Australia)

^d Climbing Robot Company Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climbing service robot; Fuzzy logic; Insect inspired robot; Legged robot; Pneumatic control

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING SERVICE ROBOTS; INSECT INSPIRED ROBOTS; LEGGED ROBOTS;

FUZZY SETS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27544461445     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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