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Author Lam, Tin Lun

Title Tree climbing robot : design, kinematics and motion planning / Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 163 pages)
Series Springer tracts in advanced robotics, 1610-7438 ; 78
Springer tracts in advanced robotics ; 78.
Contents Introduction -- State-of-the-Art Tree-Climbing Robots -- Methodology of Tree Climbing -- A Novel Tree-Climbing Robot: Treebot -- Optimization of the Fastening Force -- Kinematics and Workspace Analysis -- Autonomous Climbing -- Global Path and Motion Planning -- Conclusions and Future Work
Summary Climbing robot is a challenging research topic that has gained much attention from researchers. Most of the robots reported in the literature are designed to climb on manmade structures, but seldom robots are designed for climbing natural environment such as trees. Trees and manmade structures are very different in nature. It brings different aspects of technical challenges to the robot design. In this book, you can find a collection of the cutting edge technologies in the field of tree-climbing robot and the ways that animals climb. It provides a valuable reference for robot designers to select appropriate climbing methods in designing tree-climbing robots for specific purposes. Based on the study, a novel bio-inspired tree-climbing robot with several breakthrough performances has been developed and presents in this book. It is capable of performing various actions that is impossible in the state-of-the-art tree-climbing robots, such as moving between trunk and branches. This book also proposes several approaches in autonomous tree-climbing, including the sensing methodology, cognition of the environment, path planning and motion planning on both known and unknown environment
Analysis Engineering
Engineering design
Robotics and Automation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mobile robots.
Robotics.
Ingénierie.
Mobile robots
Robotics
Form Electronic book
Author Xu, Yangsheng, 1958-
ISBN 9783642283116
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