Development of wall-climbing robots with sliding suction cups

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3417-3422

  Qian, Zhi Yuan ^a   Zhao, Yan Zheng ^a   Fu, Zhuang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Sliding suction cup; Suction force control; Tether supported wall sliding robot; Wall climbing robot; Wheeled WCRs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC MODELS; FORCE CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

SLIDING SUCTION CUPS (SSC); SUCTION FORCE CONTROL; WALL SLIDING ROBOTS (WSR); WALL-CLIMBING ROBOTS (WCR);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250661360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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