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TROB
2008
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Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion
Stickybot is a bio-inspired robot that climbs smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, plastic and ceramic tile at 4 cm/s. The robot employs several design principles adapted from t...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
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On the Form-Closure of Polygonal Objects with Frictional and Frictionless Contact Models
This paper investigates the problem of "formclosure"for three-fingered grasps of polygonal objects under various combinations of contact models at the contact points. We...
Yu-Che Chen, Jeffrey C. Trinkle