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ISER
2004
Springer
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14 years 21 days ago
Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot
This paper presents a new four-limbed robot, LEMUR IIb (Legged Excursion Mechanical Utility Rover), that can free-climb vertical rock surfaces. This robot was designed to have a nu...
Timothy Bretl, Stephen M. Rock, Jean-Claude Latomb...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot
— We describe the design and control of a new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale smooth vertical surfaces using directional adhesive materials. The robot, called Stick...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...
IROS
2009
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Design of a wall-climbing hexapod for advanced maneuvers
— A hexapod designed for wall climbing with a body joint and 3-DOF legs can perform complex maneuvers such as sharp turns, making both interior and exterior transitions between v...
Luther R. Palmer, Eric D. Diller, Roger D. Quinn
IROS
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
84views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
SCOUT: A Simple Quadruped that Walks, Climbs and Runs
A simple mechanical design for quadrupedal locomotion, termed SCOUT, is proposed, featuring only one degree of freedom per leg. This paper demonstrates experimentally that our rst...
Martin Buehler, R. Battaglia, A. Cocosco, Geoff Ha...