Foot design and integration for bioinspired climbing robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6230 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Spenko, Matthew ^a   Cutkosky, Mark ^a   Majidi, Carmel ^b   Fearing, Ronald ^b   Groff, Richard ^b   Autumn, Kellar ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINSPIRED CLIMBING ROBOTS; COMPLIANT SUSPENSION SYSTEMS; MICROSPINE STRUCTURES; QUASI STATIC REGIME;

ADHESIVE JOINTS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FRICTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 33748542582     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.665874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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