Design and technical development of wall-climbing robots: A review

Y Fang, S Wang, Q Bi, D Cui, C Yan - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2022‏ - Springer
Once working at heights is dangerous, it is a significant accident. These accidents brought
substantial economic losses and caused a large number of casualties. Therefore, it is …

Learning from biological attachment devices: Applications of bioinspired reversible adhesive methods in robotics

K Xu, P Zi, X Ding - Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2022‏ - Springer
Many organisms have attachment organs with excellent functions, such as adhesion,
clinging, and gras**, as a result of biological evolution to adapt to complex living …

Develo** a climbing robot for repairing cables of cable-stayed bridges

F Xu, S Dai, Q Jiang, X Wang - Automation in Construction, 2021‏ - Elsevier
It is difficult to test and maintain the cables on a cable-stayed bridge. Cable detection and
repair remain mainly manual operations and automatic maintenance is rare. Aiming at the …

Tunable adhesion of shape memory polymer dry adhesive soft robotic gripper via stiffness control

CH Son, S Jeong, S Lee, PM Ferreira, S Kim - Robotics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
A shape memory polymer (SMP) has been intensively researched in terms of its exceptional
reversible dry adhesive characteristics and related smart adhesive applications over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Design and stability analysis of a wall-climbing robot using propulsive force of propeller

P Liang, X Gao, Q Zhang, R Gao, M Li, Y Xu, W Zhu - Symmetry, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
This article introduces a wall-climbing robot that uses the reverse thrust of the propeller as
the adsorption force. The robot is symmetrically distributed in structure and the adsorption …

[HTML][HTML] Review of advancements in wall climbing robot techniques

J Zhu, Y Zhu, P Zhang - Franklin Open, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Wall Climbing Robots (WCRs) represent the proliferation in the field of robotics.
Research on wall-climbing robots has led to significant advancements in various …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal swarm strategy for dynamic target search and tracking

HL Kwa, JL Kit, R Bouffanais - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2020‏ - aamas.csc.liv.ac.uk
Dynamic target search and tracking represents one of the most challenging problems for
multi-agent systems. Effective strategies are critically needed to address numerous real …

Design principles for additive manufacturing: leveraging crowdsourced design repositories

D Hwang, K Blake Perez… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Abstract Industry 4.0, as the fourth industrial revolution, represents significant challenges
and numerous innovation opportunities for future product realization. A critical area of …

Review of the current research status and constraints of wall-climbing robots

S Li, AD Calderon - 2023 6th International Conference on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wall-climbing robot refers to the electromechanical system that can attach to the surface of
the object to carry out multi-degree-of-freedom movement and complete the work, especially …

Decentralized multi-floor exploration by a swarm of miniature robots teaming with wall-climbing units

JL Kit, AG Dharmawan, D Mateo… - … symposium on multi …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of collectively exploring unknown and dynamic
environments with a decentralized heterogeneous multi-robot system consisting of multiple …