SpinybotII: Climbing hard walls with compliant microspines

2005 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR '05, Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 601-606

  Kim, Sangbae ^a   Asbeck, Alan T ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a   Provancher, William R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanisms; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MASONRY BRIDGES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; HARD WALLS; SURFACE INTERACTION; VERTICAL SURFACES;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 33749051407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2005.1507470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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