Very compact climbing robot rolling on magnetic hexagonal cam-discs, with high mobility on obstacles but minimal mechanical complexity

Joint 41st International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics 2010, ISR/ROBOTIK 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1239-1245

  Fischer, W ^a   Caprari, G ^a   Siegwart, R ^a   Moser, R ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ALSTOM SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION FORCES; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; LARGE GENERATOR; MAGNETIC WHEELS; MECHANICAL CALCULATION MODELS; MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY; MECHANICAL DESIGN; POWER PLANT COMPONENTS;

ACTUATOR DISKS; ADHESION; CAMS; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETISM; ROBOTICS; WHEELS;

MAGNETIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84881410028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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