Basic studies on wet adhesion system for wall climbing robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1920-1925

  Miyake, Tohru ^a,b,c   Ishihara, Hidenori ^a,d   Yoshimura, Motoi ^b  

^a IEEE

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Miraikikai Inc

^d Graduate school of Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CURING; FRICTION; GLASS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SILICON; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SUCTION CUP;

ADHESION;

EID: 51349096441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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