Magnetic hair for wall mobility

Jose Berengueres; Kunio Takahashi; Shigeki Saito; Kenjiro Tadakuma

doi:10.1109/IROS.2006.281826

Magnetic hair for wall mobility

Jose Berengueres, Kunio Takahashi, Shigeki Saito, Kenjiro Tadakuma

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Abstract

We introduce a climbing system, inspired by gecko foot that uses magnets in place of Van der Waals interaction. This is possible because both forces, except for a scale factor, have similar force-curves. Taking advantage of this fact, we manufactured a hand-size "magnetic" version of a gecko-foot. This allowed us to conduct naked-eye experiments. As a result we identify four shape-function relations that might partially explain the design of gecko feet. Additionally, we report experimental data, introduce a quantitative concept to compare climbing systems and show a prototype of magnetic hair.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2006
Pages	3934-3939
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.281826
Publication status	Published - Dec 1 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2006 - Beijing, China Duration: Oct 9 2006 → Oct 15 2006

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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Other	2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2006
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	10/9/06 → 10/15/06

Keywords

Climbing
Distributed adhesion
Functional shape
Gecko
Magnet
Magnetic pad
Personal climbing device
Wall

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Software
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science Applications

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Berengueres, J, Takahashi, K, Saito, S & Tadakuma, K 2006, Magnetic hair for wall mobility. in 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2006., 4059021, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3934-3939, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2006, Beijing, China, 10/9/06. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.281826

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