Whole body adhesion: Hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1268-1273

  Kim, Sangbae ^a   Spenko, Matthew ^a   Trujillo, Salomon ^a   Heyneman, Barrett ^a   Mattoli, Virgilio ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; FORCE CONTROL; GLASS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MICROMETERS;

BODY ADHESION; CLIMBING ROBOTS; DISENGAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 36248932439     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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