Tree Climbing Robot Design, Kinematics and Motion Planning /

• Main Authors: Lam, Tin Lun (Author), Xu, Yangsheng (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 78
• Subjects: Engineering.; Engineering design.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Engineering Design.

Climbing robot is a challenging research topic that has gained much attention from researchers. Most of the robots reported in the literature are designed to climb on manmade structures, but seldom robots are designed for climbing natural environment such as trees. Trees and manmade structures are v...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• State-of-the-Art Tree-climbing Robots
• Methodology of Tree Climbing
• A Novel Tree-climbing Robot: Treebot
• Optimization of the Fastening Force
• Kinematics and Workspace Analysis
• Autonomous Climbing
• Global Path and Motion Planning
• Conclusions and Future Work.