Toward micro wall-climbing robots using biomimetic fibrillar adhesives

Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, AMiRE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-46

  Greuter, Matthias ^a   Shah, Gaurav ^b   Caprari, Gilles ^a   Tâche, Fabien ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a   Sitti, Metin ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENTS; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; AVOID OBSTACLES; INCLINED SURFACE; MICRO WALL-CLIMBING ROBOT; MINIATURE ROBOTS; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WALL-CLIMBING;

BIOMIMETICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 38049156749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29344-2_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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