Geckobot and waalbot: Small-scale wall climbing robots

Collection of Technical Papers - InfoTech at Aerospace: Advancing Contemporary Aerospace Technologies and Their Integration

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 343-352

  Unver, Ozgur ^a   Murphy, Michael P ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE PASTES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KINEMATICS; NAVIGATION; ROTATING MACHINERY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPACE RESEARCH; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; SPACE MISSION; VERTICAL SURFACES; WAALBOT PROTOTYPE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33748677958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-6940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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