Title :
City-Climbers at Work
Author :
Elliott, Matthew ; Morris, William ; Calle, Angel ; Xiao, Jizhong
Author_Institution :
City Coll. of New York, NY
Abstract :
The video presents recent progress of the wall-climbing robot project at the City College of New York. The robots are named as City-Climbers which adopt a novel adhesive mechanism based on aerodynamic attraction to achieve good balance between strong adhesion force and high mobility. The video demonstrates that the City-Climber robots can operate on virtually any kind of smooth or rough surfaces and have the capabilities to move on the ground, climb walls, and transit between them. The modular design achieves both fast motion of each module on planar surfaces and smooth transition between the surfaces by a set of two modules. The video also displays the Fluent simulation results of the aerodynamic attraction with the aim to optimize the design. DSP-based control system is introduced which enables the robot to operate both manually and autonomously
Keywords :
adhesion; aerodynamics; mobile robots; robot dynamics; City-Climbers; DSP-based control system; Fluent simulation; adhesive mechanism; aerodynamic attraction; planar surfaces; rough surface; smooth surface; wall-climbing robots; Adhesives; Aerodynamics; Cities and towns; Control systems; Design optimization; Displays; Educational institutions; Mobile robots; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Roma
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0601-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1050-4729
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363885