Climbot: A modular bio-inspired biped climbing robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1473-1478

  Guan, Yisheng ^a   Jiang, Li ^a   Zhu, Haifei ^a   Zhou, Xuefeng ^a   Cai, Chuanwu ^a   Wu, Wenqiang ^a   Li, Zhanchu ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Xianmin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bio inspired robot; Climbing gait; Climbing robot; Modular robot

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CLIMBING GAIT; CLIMBING ROBOT; CLIMBING ROBOTS; MODULAR APPROACH; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS;

ANIMALS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FORESTRY; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

CONSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTATION; MOTION; ROBOTS;

EID: 84455207884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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