A tailless timing belt climbing platform utilizing dry adhesives with mushroom caps

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Krahn, J ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Sadeghi, A ^a   Menon, C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION PROPERTIES; CLIMBING ROBOTS; DISTANCE MEASURING; DRY ADHESIVE; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; PRELOADING; PRELOADS; TIMING BELTS; VERTICAL SURFACE;

BELT DRIVES; BIOMIMETICS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

ADHESIVES;

EID: 80155135627     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/11/115021     Document Type: Article

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