Design of mobile robots with wall climbing capability

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 438-443

  Xiao, Jizhong ^a   Sadegh, Ali ^b   Elliott, Matthew ^a   Calle, Angel ^c   Persad, Avinash ^a   Chiu, Ho Ming ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Electrical Engineering Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

VACUUM CHAMBER SEAL; WALL CLIMBING CAPABILITY; WALL SURFACES; WALL-TO-WALL TRANSITIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27644496766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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