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- From: jak@cs.brown.edu (Jak Kirman)
- Subject: Re: Climbing robots
- In-Reply-To: guanghua@cs.hw.ac.uk's message of 20 Jul 92 14:55:57 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
- References: <1992Jul20.145557.26830@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:35:29 GMT
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- At the 1991 IEEE Robotics and Automation conference, I saw a talk given
- by J. Billingsley from Portsmouth Polytechnic (England). The title was:
- "Robug II: An intelligent wall climbing robot".
-
- The robot used some type of suction cup and force-sensing feet to move
- up walls. It had been tried out on real buildings, and apparently did
- pretty well. It was pretty interesting, but more emphasis was placed on
- the engineering aspects than the high level control considerations in
- which I was more interested, so I don't remember all that much about it.
- I could get the proceedings and send you a proper reference if you are
- interested.
-
- Jak Kirman jak@cs.brown.edu
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Every now and then when life gets complicated the only solution is to
- load up on heinous chemicals and drive like a bastard from Hollywood to
- Las Vegas.
- -- Hunter Thompson
-