Morphology and reaction force of toes of geckos freely moving on ceilings and walls

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1688-1693

  Wang, Zhouyi ^a   Gu, Wenhua ^a   Wu, Qiang ^a   Ji, Aihong ^a   Dai, Zhendong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ceiling; Gecko like robot; Morphometrics; Reaction force of toe; Redundant force

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADHESIVES; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; MACHINE DESIGN; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; BODY WEIGHT; FREELY MOVING; LOCOMOTION BEHAVIOR; MORPHOMETRICS; REACTION FORCES; REDUNDANT FORCE; WALL-CLIMBING;

CEILINGS;

EID: 77954134718     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-010-3188-0     Document Type: Article

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