A New Self-Loading Locomotion Mechanism for Wall Climbing Robots Employing Biomimetic Adhesives

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-18

  Peyvandi, Amirpasha ^a   Soroushian, Parviz ^a   Lu, Jue ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Technova Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesives; Biomimetics; Climbing robots; Gecko; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIOMIMETIC ADHESIVES; CLIMBING ROBOTS; CONTACTING SURFACES; GECKO; LOCOMOTION MECHANISM; LOW-MODULUS ELASTOMERS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVES; RIGID PLATE; TORSIONAL SPRINGS; VERTICAL SURFACE; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT;

ADHESIVES; BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; ELASTIC MODULI; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; WHEELS;

LOADING;

EID: 84872565202     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(13)60194-8     Document Type: Article

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