3DCLIMBER: A climbing robot for inspection of 3D human made structures

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4130-4135

  Tavakoli, Mahmoud ^a   Marjovi, Ali ^a   Marques, Lino ^a   De Almeida, Aníbal T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; CLIMBING ROBOTS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; DETAILED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS ARCHITECTURE; MINIMUM DEGREE; PAPER FINISH; TEST RESULTS;

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69549108897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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