This paper presents a unique design concept, dynamic modeling, and control strategies for
efficient coverage path planning of a glass façade cleaning robot (GFCR). The robot design …

The design of a modular window façades cleaning robot is challenging given the conditions
under which these robots are required to operate. In this work, we attempt to extend the …

Dry adhesion is governed by physical rather than chemical interactions. Those may include
van der Waals and electrostatic forces, friction, and suction. Soft dry adhesives, which can …

Octopuses can use as few as a single sucker to grab and hold onto objects as each sucker
creates its own vacuum pressure using their individual muscles. Man-made suction arrays …

A chitosan composite with a vertical array of pore channels is fabricated via an
electrophoretic deposition (EPD) technique. The composite consists of chitosan and …

Remotely controllable and reversible adhesion is highly desirable for surgical operations: it
can provide the possibility of non-invasive surgery, flexibility in fixing a patch and surgical …

Snails can stably slide across a surface with only a single high-payload sucker, offering an
efficient adhesive locomotion mechanism for next-generation climbing robots. The critical …

Adhesion appears in nature as a kind of clinging strategy for living creatures to survive in a
complex environment. Nevertheless, the artificial counterpart applications are limited by …

Traditional underwater climbing robots that use vacuum, thrusters, or magnetism as
adsorption sources have many drawbacks, such as the inability to move on coarse surfaces …

Many aquatic creatures in nature have non-cooperative surface scaling abilities using
suction organs; micro-/nano-scale structures found in different parts of the organs play an …