Modular Robot Climbers

Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Jacob Everist, and Wei-Min Shen. Modular Robot Climbers. In Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, November 2007. IROS 2007 Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Systems & Applications

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Abstract

The goal of modular robots is to achieve versatility in the field, while satisfying any number of traditional robot tasks. We chose the task of traversing terrain by climbing, and present various methods of climbing with modular robots. In particular, we focus on the tasks of climbing across a horizontal rope, climbing up a vertical rope, and climbing up stairs using the Superbot modular robot. The horizontal rope climber has successfully traversed a 20 meter rope at various inclines, while the vertical rope climber has successfully climbed the height of a 6 story car park on a fully charged set of batteries in under an hour.

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@InProceedings{	  ranasinghe2007modular-robot-climbers,
  abstract	= {The goal of modular robots is to achieve versatility in the field, while satisfying any number of traditional robot tasks. We chose the task of traversing terrain by climbing, and present various methods of climbing with modular robots. In particular, we focus on the tasks of climbing across a horizontal rope, climbing up a vertical rope, and climbing up stairs using the Superbot modular robot. The horizontal rope climber has successfully traversed a 20 meter rope at various inclines, while the vertical rope climber has successfully climbed the height of a 6 story car park on a fully charged set of batteries in under an hour.},
  address	= {San Diego, CA},
  author	= {Nadeesha Ranasinghe and Jacob Everist and Wei-Min Shen},
  booktitle	= iros-07,
  month		= nov,
  note		= {IROS 2007 Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Systems & Applications},
  title		= {Modular Robot Climbers},
  year		= {2007}
}