Gecko-inspired climbing behaviors on vertical and overhanging surfaces

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1125-1131

  Santos, Daniel ^a   Heyneman, Barrett ^a   Kim, Sangbae ^a   Esparza, Noe ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LIMIT SURFACE;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 51649116098     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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