Vacuum-based wet adhesion system for wall climbing robots -Lubricating action and seal action by the liquid-

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1824-1829

  Miyake, Tohru ^a   Ishihara, Hidenori ^a   Tomino, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOMIMETICS; FRICTION; LUBRICATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CONCRETE WALL; LOW FRICTION; LUBRICATING ACTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; ROUGH SURFACES; SEAL PERFORMANCE; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WET ADHESION;

SEALS;

EID: 70349170890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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