Smooth vertical surface climbing with directional adhesion

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-74

  Kim, Sangbae ^a   Spenko, Matthew ^b   Trujillo, Salomon ^a   Heyneman, Barrett ^a   Santos, Daniel ^a   Cutkoskly, Mark R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinspired; Climbing robot; Dry adhesive; Geckoinspired; Legged robot; Mobile robot under actuated

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; FORCE CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS;

BIOINSPIRED ROBOT; CLIMBING ROBOT; DIRECTIONAL ADHESION; LEGGED ROBOT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 40949135172     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.909786     Document Type: Article

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