A low-cost lightweight climbing robot for the inspection of vertical surfaces

By G. Rosa, M. Messina, G. Muscato, R. Sinatra. 2002

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fb0a6456171049f459395aa71e53a79124405683

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Sangbae Kim
2. Daniel E. Koditschek
3. Robert J. Full
4. Mark R. Cutkosky
5. William R. Provancher
6. Alan T. Asbeck
7. Avik De
8. Metin Sitti

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Sangbae Kim
2. Robert J. Full
3. Daniel E. Koditschek
4. Alfred A. Rizzi

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Sangbae Kim
2. Mark R. Cutkosky
3. William R. Provancher
4. Alan T. Asbeck
5. Metin Sitti

Citations in the corpus

• SpinybotII: climbing hard walls with compliant microspines (2005, background): “Previously developed climbing robots have generally employed suction cups [5][6][7], magnets [8][9] or sticky adhesives [10] to cling to smooth vertical surfaces such as windows and interior walls.”
• Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion (2008, methodology): “Previous robots capable of climbing exterior building surfaces such as stucco and brick have utilized microspines similar to those found on insects [2], [29] or a controlled vortex that creates negative aerodynamic lift [32].”
• Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot (2008, background): “…of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 e-mail: cutkosky@stanford.edu A. A. Rizzi Boston Dynamics, Inc. 78 Fourth Avenue Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 e-mail: arizzi@bostondynamics.com Journal of Field Robotics 25(4–5), 223–242 (2008) C© 2008 Wiley Periodicals,…”