Development of the six‐legged walking and climbing robot SpaceClimber

S Bartsch, T Birnschein, M Römmermann… - Journal of Field …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present SpaceClimber, 1 a six‐legged, bio‐inspired, energy‐efficient and
adaptable free‐climbing robot for mobility on steep gradients. The long‐term stool is to …

Spaceclimber: Development of a six-legged climbing robot for space exploration

S Bartsch, T Birnschein, F Cordes… - ISR 2010 (41st …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the SpaceClimber integration study, a six-legged, bio-inspired,
energy-efficient, and adaptable free-climbing robot for mobility in steep gradients. The long …

Development, control, and empirical evaluation of the six-legged robot SpaceClimber designed for extraterrestrial crater exploration

S Bartsch - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2014 - Springer
In the recent past, mobile robots played an important role in the field of extraterrestrial
surface exploration. Unfortunately, the currently available space exploration rovers do not …

Scarabaeus: A walking robot applicable to sample return missions

S Bartsch, S Planthaber - … Conference on Research and Education in …, 2008 - Springer
Recently there was a growing interest in the applicability of walking robots for sample return
missions especially in the context of space missions. Samples found in hazardous terrain …

Concept evaluation of a new biologically inspired robot “LittleApe”

D Kühn, M Römmermann, N Sauthoff… - 2009 IEEE/RSJ …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a concept and an evaluation of an ape-like robot which is quite
similar to its biological model. Aim of our project LittleApe is to build a small and extreme …

Statically balanced walking of a crawler robot

S Parasuraman, FJ Hang - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research paper presents new technique for a crawler robot to achieve statically
balanced walking. The gait design and its control of walking robot require the stability …

Biologically-inspired mechanisms for space applications

C Pitcher, M Alkalla, X Pang, X Yang Gao - 2021 - IET
Natural organisms are constantly having to adapt in order to overcome the challenges
posed by their environment, with the most beneficial traits being continuously improved and …

Quad crawler robot navigation using animal walking gait

S Parasuraman, VL Jauw - 2010 2nd International Conference …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, much interest in improving the stability of walking robot has motivated the
researchers to investigate and understand the fundamental principles of biological animal …

[PDF][PDF] A free-climbing robot for steep crater terrain

D Spenneberg, F Kirchner - … of the 9th International Symposium on …, 2008 - researchgate.net
We present the goals, the approach, and the first results of the concept phase of the new
project “Spaceclimber “(funded by DLR, & ESA) which deals with the development of a …

Behavior-Based Local Path-Planning by Exploiting Inverse Kinematics on FPGA

A Köpper, K Berns - Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics …, 2019 - Springer
The increasing complexity of today's robot control systems brings more and more load on
the control hardware. It is tempting, to relieve the classical main processor by shifting to a …