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Article #162Re: Climbing robots
From: Jak Kirman
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:35
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:35
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At the 1991 IEEE Robotics and Automation conference, I saw a talk given
by J. Billingsley from Portsmouth Polytechnic (England). The title was:
"Robug II: An intelligent wall climbing robot".
The robot used some type of suction cup and force-sensing feet to move
up walls. It had been tried out on real buildings, and apparently did
pretty well. It was pretty interesting, but more emphasis was placed on
the engineering aspects than the high level control considerations in
which I was more interested, so I don't remember all that much about it.
I could get the proceedings and send you a proper reference if you are
interested.
Jak Kirman jak@cs.brown.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!brunix!doorknob!jak From: jak@cs.brown.edu (Jak Kirman) Subject: Re: Climbing robots In-Reply-To: guanghua@cs.hw.ac.uk's message of 20 Jul 92 14:55:57 GMT Message-ID: <JAK.92Jul21213529@bimini.cs.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Reply-To: jak@cs.brown.edu Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University References: <1992Jul20.145557.26830@cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:35:29 GMT Lines: 18