Proposed wall climbing robot with permanent magnetic tracks for inspecting oil tanks

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2072-2077

  Shen, Weimin ^a   Gu, Jason ^a   Shen, Yanjun ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Embedded system; Hierarchy control architecture; Magnetic adhesion mechanism; Tracked locomotion mechanism; Wall climbing robot

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION FIELDS; CLIMBING ROBOTS; PERMANENT MAGNETIC TRACKS; WALL CLIMBING;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 27744586426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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