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IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-41

  Zhang, Houxiang ^a   Zhang, Jianwei ^a   Zong, Guanghua ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Liu, Rong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Control system; Glass wall cleaning robot; Mechanical structure; Pneumatic schemes; Segment and variable bang bang controller

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CLEANING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRIPPERS; KINEMATICS; PNEUMATICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; TALL BUILDINGS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

GLASS-WALL CLEANING ROBOT; PNEUMATIC CYLINDERS; PNEUMATIC SCHEMES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33644675535     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2006.1598051     Document Type: Article

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