Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion
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...Climbing Stickybot Hierarchical structures, directional adhesion, and control of tangential contact forces (67)...
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...(D) Stickybot climbing on a glass surface by exploiting the hierarchical microstructure of its soft feet (67)....
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...2D) (67), a gecko-inspired robot that exploits some of the enabling features of its animal counterpart....
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...The differential tendon mechanism of muscle 2, similar to the foot design of a wallclimbing robot [29], distributes the pulling force from one tendon cable to four anchors....
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...Comparison of the frictional adhesion model [4] and the JKR model [18] with pull-off force data from a single toe of Stickybot’s directional adhesive patches (513 stalks)....
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...The consequence of the gecko’s hierarchical system of compliances is that it can achieve levels of adhesion of over 500 kPa on a wide variety of surfaces from glass to rough rock, and can support its entire weight in shear from just one toe [7]....
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...the size and shape of the contacting elements is important in sustaining adhesion [1], [14]–[16], [22], [35]....
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...In order to handle this tradeoff, Stickybot’s controller implements a grasp-space stiffness controller [20]....
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