Compact magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex shaped pipe structures

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-266

  Tâche, Fabien ^a   Fischer, Wolfgang ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a   Moser, Roland ^b   Mondada, Francesco ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ALSTOM SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; PIPE; POWDERS; ROBOTS; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

HIGH-MOBILITY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAGNETIC WHEELS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 51349089251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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