A visual sensing application to a climbing cleaning robot on the glass surface

Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1089-1104

  Sun, Dong ^a   Zhu, Jian ^a   Lai, Chiming ^a   Tso, S K ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Climbing robot; Glass cleaning; Laser diodes; Visual sensing

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; SONAR; WINDOWS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; GLASS SURFACE; VISUAL SENSING; VISUAL SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 5644283529     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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