Landing and perching on vertical surfaces with microspines for small unmanned air vehicles

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 57, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 313-327

  Lussier Desbiens, Alexis ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Endurance; Landing; Microspines; Perching; Suspension; Unmanned air vehicles; Vertical surfaces; Wall

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; BRICK WALL; BUILDING WALLS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; MICROSPINES; NON-LINEAR; OPEN LOOPS; PEAK FORCE; RANGE SENSORS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; VERTICAL SURFACE; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ADHESION; AUTOMOBILE SUSPENSIONS; DURABILITY; LANDING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

EID: 72449192629     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-009-9377-z     Document Type: Article

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