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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Tankbot: A miniature, peeling based climber on rough and smooth surfaces
—Tankbot is a miniature, energy efficient, lightweight (60 g), and robust climbing robot. It uses the continuous detachment force (peeling) of the flat, bulk tacky elastomer tr...
Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Passive Foot Design and Contact Area Analysis for Climbing Mini-Whegs
—Mini-Whegs™, a power-autonomous vehicle that uses multi-spoke wheel-legs for locomotion, is able to climb vertical glass surfaces with several different wheel-leg designs. Adh...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Terence E. Wei, Stanislav N. ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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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
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Kinematic study of the spider system in a biomimetic perspective
— The spiders’ ability of walking and climbing on different surfaces and in different conditions is taken into account in this paper in order to define and study a suitable sp...
Alessandro Gasparetto, Renato Vidoni, Tobias Seidl
IMR
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Surface Smoothing and Quality Improvement of Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshes with Geometric Flow
: This paper describes an approach to smooth the surface and improve the quality of quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes with feature preserved using geometric flow. For quadrilateral ...
Yongjie Zhang, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Guoliang Xu