Directional adhesive structures for controlled climbing on smooth vertical surfaces

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1262-1267

  Santos, Daniel ^a   Kim, Sangbae ^a   Spenko, Matthew ^a   Parness, Aaron ^a   Cutkosky, Mark ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRAJECTORIES;

ADHESIVE STRUCTURES; CONVENTIONAL ADHESIVES; DIRECTIONAL POLYMER STALKS; SMOOTH DETACHMENT;

ADHESIVES;

EID: 36348963011     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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