DocumentCode
2688801
Title
SpiderBot: A cable suspended mobile robot
Author
Capua, Alon ; Shapiro, Amir ; Shoval, Shraga
Author_Institution
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
fYear
2011
fDate
9-13 May 2011
Firstpage
3437
Lastpage
3438
Abstract
SpiderBot is a cable suspended mobile robot that is designed to climb walls and hang from ceilings by shooting tethered plungers onto the surface. Removing the plungers, it reels in the web, aims, and repeats the process to climb farther. SpiderBots´ design was inspired by the fictional character Spider-Man. The robot can be used for carrying equipment and sensors over a disaster area to help rescue forces. It can maneuver and serve as a moving platform inside building such as workshops and hangers without taking floor space. The robot can also move between floating vessels at sea and serve as a moving crane.
Keywords
cranes; disasters; mobile robots; sensors; SpiderBot:; cable suspended mobile robot; disaster area; floating vessels; hangers; moving crane; moving platform; rescue forces; sensors; tethered plungers; workshops; Conferences; Force; Grippers; Kinematics; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
978-1-61284-386-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979640
Filename
5979640
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