Wall climbing robot in narrow space with pantograph-type structure

2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1507-1512

  Ariga, Anna ^a   Kobayashi, Tsukasa ^a   Yamaguchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Hashimoto, Shuji ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUSHING FORCES; SEWER PIPES; SMOOTH MOVEMENT; SPACE BETWEEN; TYPE STRUCTURES; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT; WALL DISTANCES;

BIOMIMETICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PANTOGRAPHS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 79952910166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2010.5723553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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