Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot

This paper describes an integrated quasi-autonomous four-limbed robot, named Capuchin, which is equipped with appropriate sensing, planning and control capabilities to “free-climb” vertical terrain. Unlike aid climbing that takes advantage of special tools and/or engineered terrain features, free cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruixiang Zhang, Jean-Claude Latombe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-04-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/56469