[HTML][HTML] Review of Advancements in Wall Climbing Robot Techniques

J Zhu, Y Zhu, P Zhang - Franklin Open, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Wall Climbing Robots (WCRs) represent the proliferation in the field of robotics.
Research on wall-climbing robots has led to significant advancements in various …

Simultaneous contact-rich grasping and locomotion via distributed optimization enabling free-climbing for multi-limbed robots

Y Shirai, X Lin, A Schperberg, Y Tanaka… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While motion planning of locomotion for legged robots has shown great success, motion
planning for legged robots with dexterous multi-finger grasping is not mature yet. We present …

A Review and Evaluation of Control Architectures for Modular Legged and Climbing Robots

C Prados, M Hernando, E Gambao, A Brunete - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Robotic control is a fundamental part of autonomous robots. Modular legged and climbing
robots are complex machines made up of a variety of subsystems, ranging from a single …

Moclora—an architecture for legged-and-climbing modular bio-inspired robotic organism

C Prados, M Hernando, E Gambao, A Brunete - Biomimetics, 2022 - mdpi.com
MoCLORA (Modular Climbing-and-Legged Robotic Organism Architecture) is a software
framework for climbing bio-inspired robotic organisms composed of modular robots (legs). It …

Torque-based control of a bio-inspired modular climbing robot

C Prados, M Hernando, E Gambao, A Brunete - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article presents a generalizable, low computational cost, simple, and fast gravity
compensation method for legged robots with a variable number of legs. It is based on the …

Bioinspired Rigid–Flexible Coupled Adaptive Compliant Motion Control of Robot Gecko for Space Stations

X Pei, S Liu, A Wei, R Shi, Z Dai - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a study on bioinspired rigid-flexible coupling adaptive compliant motion
control of a robot gecko with hybrid actuation for space stations. The biomimetic robot gecko …

LORIS: A Lightweight Free-Climbing Robot for Extreme Terrain Exploration

P Nadan, S Backus, AM Johnson - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Climbing robots can investigate scientifically valuable sites that conventional rovers cannot
access due to steep terrain features. Robots equipped with microspine grippers are …

Optistate: State estimation of legged robots using gated networks with transformer-based vision and kalman filtering

A Schperberg, Y Tanaka, S Mowlavi, F Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
State estimation for legged robots is challenging due to their highly dynamic motion and
limitations imposed by sensor accuracy. By integrating Kalman filtering, optimization, and …

ROMERIN: Organismo robótico escalador basado en patas modulares con ventosas activas

C Prados, M Hernando, E Gambao… - … de Automática e …, 2023 - riunet.upv.es
[ES] Este artículo presenta el robot ROMERIN, un organismo robótico modularmente
compuesto por patas que utilizan ventosas activas como sistema de adhesión al entorno, y …

Real-to-Sim: Predicting Residual Errors of Robotic Systems with Sparse Data using a Learning-based Unscented Kalman Filter

A Schperberg, Y Tanaka, F Xu… - … on Ubiquitous Robots …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving highly accurate dynamic or simulator models that are close to the real robot can
facilitate model-based controls (eg, model predictive control or linear-quadradic regulators) …