Preliminary analysis of a legged robot designed to climb vertical surfaces

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 887-892

  Li, Yasong ^a   Ahmed, Ausama ^a   Wu, Claire ^a   Menon, Carlo ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climbing robot; Dry adhesion; Hexapod; Kinematics; Legged robot; Peeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING ROBOTS; DRY ADHESION; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS EQUATION; LEGGED ROBOTS; MULTI-BODY; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC FOOT; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SOFTWARE SIMULATION; VERTICAL SURFACE; VERTICAL WALL; WALL-CLIMBING;

ADHESION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KINEMATICS; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77952708226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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