Magnetic hair for wall mobility

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3934-3939

  Berengueres, Jose ^a   Takahashi, Kunio ^a   Saito, Shigeki ^a   Tadakuma, Kenjiro ^a  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Climbing; Distributed adhesion; Functional shape; Gecko; Magnet; Magnetic pad; Personal climbing device; Wall

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; MAGNETS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS;

CLIMBING; DISTRIBUTED ADHESION; FUNCTIONAL SHAPE; GECKO FOOT; MAGNETIC PADS; PERSONAL CLIMBING DEVICES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250668666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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