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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads
—In this paper, the design, analysis, and development of a sixteen-legged palm-sized climbing robot using flat bulk tacky elastomer adhesives as an attachment method is presente...
Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti
IROS
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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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...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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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
SI3D
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Localized-hierarchy surface splines (LeSS)
An explicit spline representation of smooth free-form surfaces is combined with a hierarchy of meshes to form the basis of an interactive sculpting environment. The environment of...
Carlos Gonzalez-Ochoa, Jörg Peters