A small wall-walking robot with compliant, adhesive feet

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3648-3653

  Daltorio, Kathryn A ^a   Horchler, Andrew D ^a   Gorb, Stanislav ^b   Ritzmann, Roy E ^c   Quinn, Roger D ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesive based climbing vehicles; Biologically inspired robotics; Wall climbing robots

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; NOVEL ADHESIVES; PRESSURE SENSITIVE TAPES; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; VERTICAL SURFACE; WALKING ROBOTS; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT;

ADHESIVES;

EID: 33845651305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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