City-climber: A new generation of mobile robot with wall-climbing capability

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6230 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xiao, Jizhong ^a   Morris, William ^a   Chakravarthy, Narashiman ^a   Calle, Angel ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic attraction; Climbing robot; Mechatronics; Mobile robot; Orientation sensor; System on programmable chip

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MECHATRONICS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

AERODYNAMIC ATTRACTIONS; CLIMBING ROBOTS; ORIENTATION SENSORS; SYSTEM ON PROGRAMMABLE CHIPS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33748552307     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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