Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots

Menon, Carlo; Murphy, Michael; Sitti, Metin

doi:10.1109/robio.2004.1521817

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“…Using fiber arrays, adhesive pads that generate relatively higher adhesion force in one direction and lower in the opposite direction have been developed. By utilizing these adhesive pads, wall climbing robots called Geckobot and Waalbot have been implemented, and the effectiveness of the robots has been demonstrated through experiments [101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108].…”

Section: Bio-inspired Adhesionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Wall Climbing Robots: Recent Advances and Challenges

Nansai

Elara

2016

Robotics

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Abstract:In recent decades, skyscrapers, as represented by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, have been built due to the improvements of construction technologies. Even in such newfangled skyscrapers, the façades are generally cleaned by humans. Wall climbing robots, which are capable of climbing up vertical surfaces, ceilings and roofs, are expected to replace the manual workforce in façade cleaning works, which is both hazardous and laborious work. Such tasks require these robotic platforms to possess high levels of adaptability and flexibility. This paper presents a detailed review of wall climbing robots categorizing them into six distinct classes based on the adhesive mechanism that they use. This paper concludes by expanding beyond adhesive mechanisms by discussing a set of desirable design attributes of an ideal glass façade cleaning robot towards facilitating targeted future research with clear technical goals and well-defined design trade-off boundaries.

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Section: Bio-inspired Adhesionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Wall Climbing Robots: Recent Advances and Challenges

Nansai

Elara

2016

Robotics

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“…Biomimetic type adhesion (e.g. based on elastomers [19], gecko inspired feet [20], directional adhesion [21] and others [10]) is still in experimental phase with proven functionality for small sizes and weights, yet not proven for in-water application.…”

Section: Adhesion and Neutralizing Subsystems A Adhesion By Suctmentioning

confidence: 99%

New concept of in-water surface cleaning robot

Albitar

Ananiev

Kalaykov

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation

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Abstract-This paper introduces a new concept of flexible crawling mechanism to design an industrial underwater cleaning robot, which is evaluated from the viewpoint of the capability to work underwater, scanning the desired surface, and bearing the reactions. This can be used as a robotic application in underwater surface cleaning and maintenance. We designed a robot that realizes the motion by contraction and extraction using DC-motors and vacuum technology. In this study we first focused on realizing the adhesion, bearing reactions, and achieving a stable locomotion on the surface.

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“…• showing a very reliable behaviour [16], [17]. Unver et al developed a gecko-inspired climbing robot which walks and climbs up to 85…”

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confidence: 99%

Vertical Climbing Locomotion of a New Gecko Robot Using Dry Adhesive Material

Yu¹,

Yang²,

Yang³

et al. 2017

International Journal of Robotics and Automation

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Most of Geckos can move freely on a smooth vertical surface. The wonderful ability of locomotion depended on the countless setae under the geckos' foot which have an effect on van der Waals' force between foot and surface. This kind of force belongs to the dry adhesive force. Many scientists had attempted to understand structure-function and had produced several kinds of dry adhesive material. One of the dry adhesive materials with mushroom-shaped adhesive microstructure (MSAMS) had been selected and firstly applied in vertical locomotion of Gecko robot_6 which was a bioinspired gecko robot with four legs. To apply MSAMS in Gecko robot_6 successfully, the adhesive ability of MSAMS was tested including normal force, tangential force, and the peel-off force curve with different thickness substrates of bio-inspired gecko foot. The new bio-inspired gecko foot with MSAMS was designed, and the Gecko robot_6 can climb on a smooth vertical surface (glass) stably using dry adhesive material with MSAMS.

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Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots

Cited by 163 publications

References 7 publications

A Survey of Wall Climbing Robots: Recent Advances and Challenges

A Survey of Wall Climbing Robots: Recent Advances and Challenges

New concept of in-water surface cleaning robot

Vertical Climbing Locomotion of a New Gecko Robot Using Dry Adhesive Material

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