A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2276-2281

  Unver, Ozgur ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climbing robots; Dry elastomer adhesion; Force transfer; Miniature robots; Peeling

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADHESIVES; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MACHINE DESIGN;

CLIMBING PERFORMANCE; CLIMBING ROBOTS; CONVEX SURFACES; ENERGY EFFICIENT; PASSIVE ALIGNMENT; SATURATION POINT; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SMOOTH SURFACE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 85085686706     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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