The proposal of swarm type wall climbing robot system "Anchor Climber"- The design and examination of adhering mobile unit

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 475-480

  Kitai, Shinya ^a   Tsuru, Kiyoshi ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhering mobile unit; Anchor climber; IB magnet; Swarm type; Wall climbing

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

HIGH MOBILITY; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MOBILE UNITS; PAYLOAD CAPABILITIES; ROBOT SYSTEM; SWARM TYPE; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WALL-CLIMBING;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 51349127673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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