Tham khảo tài liệu 'intech-climbing and walking robots towards new applications part 1', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Preface The research field of robotics has been contributing widely and significantly to industrial applications for assembly welding painting and transportation for a long time. Meanwhile the last decades have seen an increasing interest in developing and employing mobile robots for industrial inspection conducting surveillance urban search and rescue military reconnaissance and civil exploration. As a special potential sub-group of mobile technology climbing and walking robots can work in unstructured environments. They are useful devices adopted in a variety of applications such as reliable non-destructive evaluation NDE and diagnosis in hazardous environments welding and manipulation in the construction industry especially of metallic structures and cleaning and maintenance of high-rise buildings. The development of walking and climbing robots offers a novel solution to the above-mentioned problems relieves human workers of their hazardous work and makes automatic manipulation possible thus improving the technological level and productivity of the service industry. Currently there are several different kinds of kinematics for motion on horizontal and vertical surfaces multiple legs sliding frames wheeled and chain-track vehicles. All of the above kinematics modes have been presented in this book. For example six-legged walking robots and humanoid robots are multiple-leg robots the climbing cleaning robot features a sliding frame while several other mobile prototypes are contained in a wheeled and chain-track vehicle. Generally a light-weight structure and efficient manipulators are two important issues in designing climbing and walking robots. Even though significant progress has been made in this field the technology of climbing and walking robots is still a challenging topic which should receive special attention by robotics research. For example note that previous climbing robots are relatively large. The size and weight of these prototypes is the choke .
