A Survey of Technologies for climbing robots adhesion to surfaces

ICCC 2008 - IEEE 6th International Conference on Computational Cybernetics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-132

  Silva, Manuel F ^a   Tenreiro Machado, J A ^a   Tar, József K ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SURVEYS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS; GRIPPING FORCES; LIGHT WEIGHTS;

ADHESION;

EID: 61649127159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCYB.2008.4721392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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