Scaling walls: Applying dry adhesives to the real world

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5100-5106

  Hawkes, Elliot W ^a   Ulmen, John ^a   Esparza, Noe ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE MATERIALS; BASIC STRUCTURE; CLIMBING ROBOTS; COMPLIANT STRUCTURES; CURVED SURFACES; DRY ADHESIVE; LOADING CONDITION; PEELING FAILURE; SMALL SAMPLES; UNIFORM LOADING; UNIFORM PRESSURE; WALL SURFACES;

ADHESIVES; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455208561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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