Scaling hard vertical surfaces with compliant microspine arrays

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1165-1179

  Asbeck, Alan T ^a   Kim, Sangbae ^a   Cutkosky, M R ^a   Provancher, William R ^b   Lanzetta, Michele ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bio inspired; Climbing; Legged locomation; Spines

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; CLIMBING; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; SPINES;

ARRAYS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 33751007841     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364906072511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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