Formation control and coordination of multiple unmanned ground vehicles in normal and faulty situations: A review

MA Kamel, X Yu, Y Zhang - Annual reviews in control, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, multiple unmanned vehicles have attracted a great deal of attention as viable
solutions to a wide variety of civilian and military applications. Among many topics in the …

Design and technical development of wall-climbing robots: A review

Y Fang, S Wang, Q Bi, D Cui, C Yan - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Once working at heights is dangerous, it is a significant accident. These accidents brought
substantial economic losses and caused a large number of casualties. Therefore, it is …

Advances in climbing robots for vertical structures in the past decade: a review

G Fang, J Cheng - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climbing robots are designed to conduct tasks that may be dangerous for humans working
at height. In addition to improving safety, they can also increase task efficiency and reduce …

Design and optimization of wall-climbing robot impeller by genetic algorithm based on computational fluid dynamics and kriging model

Y Fang, S Wang, D Cui, Q Bi, R Jiang, C Yan - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, wall-climbing robots have begun to replace manual work at heights to
reduce economic losses and casualties caused by working at heights. This paper designs a …

Wall-climbing robot with active sealing for radiation safety of nuclear power plants

D Kim, YS Kim, K Noh, M Jang… - Nuclear science and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The safe management of radiation sources and wastes is one of the most important
elements in operating nuclear power plants (NPPs). Safe management requires periodically …

Design of a variable stiffness gecko-inspired foot and adhesion performance test on flexible surface

Z Yu, J Fu, Y Ji, B Zhao, A Ji - Biomimetics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Adhesion robots have broad application prospects in the field of spacecraft inspection,
repair, and maintenance, but the stable adhesion and climbing on the flexible surface …

Dp-climb: A hybrid adhesion climbing robot design and analysis for internal transition

Q Zhang, X Gao, M Li, Y Wei, P Liang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a double propeller wall-climbing robot (DP-Climb) with a hybrid
adhesion system based on the biomimetic design principle to address the problems of …

Modular neural control for gait adaptation and obstacle avoidance of a tailless gecko robot

A Srisuchinnawong, B Wang, D Shao… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2021 - Springer
In this study, we present a novel neural control architecture for gait adaptation and obstacle
avoidance of a tailless gecko robot. The control architecture is based on a hierarchical …

High-speed airflow influence on adhesion performance of fibrillar adhesive

W Chen, T Sun, J Li, X Li, X Li… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - singcf.iopscience.iop.org
Bio-inspired adhesives have been widely studied in various fields, including attachment and
grasping technologies in sea, land, air, and space. However, current research primarily …

Fast stiffness variation gripper with efficient adhesion control

W Chen, T Sun, J Li, X Li, L Li, Y Meng… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The mushroom-shape gecko-inspired adhesive has been extensively studied and applied in
a wide range of fields. However, current research primarily focuses on enhancing its …