A novel wall climbing robot based on Bernoulli Effect

2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-215

  Wagner, Matthias ^a   Chen, XiaoQi ^b   Nayyerloo, Mostafa ^b   Wang, Wenhui ^b   Chase, J Geoffrey ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Attachment mechanism; Attraction force; Bernoulli Effect; Wall climbing robot

Indexed keywords

ADHESION FORCES; ADHESION METHODS; ATTACHMENT MECHANISM; ATTRACTION FORCE; BERNOULLI EFFECT; COST EFFECTIVES; HUMAN SAFETIES; MAGNETIC ADHESIONS; MANOEUVRABILITY; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; TECHNIQUES USED; VACUUM SUCTIONS; VERTICAL WALLS; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WEIGHT RATIOS;

ADHESION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MECHATRONICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; TANKERS (SHIPS);

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 60749131640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MESA.2008.4735656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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