This paper reviews a template for dynamical climbing originating in biology, explores its
stability properties in a numerical model, and presents empirical data from a physical …

This paper presents an integrated, systems‐level view of several novel design and control
features associated with the biologically inspired, hexapedal, RiSE (Robots in Scansorial …

This paper presents the design and optimization of a wall-climbing robot along with the
incorporation of autonomous adhesion recovery and a motion planning implementation. The …

We describe the design and control of a new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale
smooth vertical surfaces using directional adhesive materials. The robot, called Stickybot …

This paper describes the development of a legged robot designed for general locomotion of
complex terrain but specialized for dynamical, high-speed climbing of a uniformly convex …

This paper describes the inspiration for, design, analysis, and implementation of, and
experimentation with the first dynamical vertical climbing robot. Biologists have proposed a …

This paper introduces self-manipulation as a new formal design methodology for legged
robots with varying ground interactions. The term denotes a set of modeling choices that …

Insights from biology have helped reduce the weight and increase the climbing ability of
mobile robots. This paper presents Screenbot, see Fig. 1, a new 126 gram biologically …

This paper introduces a vertical ladder climbing of the humanoid robot only by the posture
control without any external sensors. The humanoid robot does not have any special …

We present a gait generation framework for multi-legged robots based on max-plus algebra
that is endowed with intrinsically safe gait transitions. The time schedule of each foot liftoff …