Tree Climbing Robot

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-18

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2. Introduction

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 1-4

3. State-of-the-Art Tree-Climbing Robots

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 5-8

4. Methodology of Tree Climbing

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 9-21

5. A Novel Tree-Climbing Robot: Treebot

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 23-54

6. Optimization of the Fastening Force

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 55-72

7. Kinematics and Workspace Analysis

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 73-89

8. Autonomous Climbing

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 91-116

9. Global Path and Motion Planning

   • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

   Pages 117-138

10. Conclusions and Future Work

    • Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu

    Pages 139-143

11. Back Matter

    Pages 0--1

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Climbing robot is a challenging research topic that has gained much attention from researchers. Most of the robots reported in the literature are designed to climb on manmade structures, but seldom robots are designed for climbing natural environment such as trees. Trees and manmade structures are very different in nature. It brings different aspects of technical challenges to the robot design. In this book, you can find a collection of the cutting edge technologies in the field of tree-climbing robot and the ways that animals climb. It provides a valuable reference for robot designers to select appropriate climbing methods in designing tree-climbing robots for specific purposes. Based on the study, a novel bio-inspired tree-climbing robot with several breakthrough performances has been developed and presents in this book. It is capable of performing various actions that is impossible in the state-of-the-art tree-climbing robots, such as moving between trunk and branches. This book also proposes several approaches in autonomous tree-climbing, including the sensing methodology, cognition of the environment, path planning and motion planning on both known and unknown environment.

• Design
• Kinematics
• Motion Planning
• Robotics
• Tree Climbing Robots

• , William M.W. Mong Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, People's Republic

  Tin Lun Lam

• , University Administration Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, People's Republic

  Yangsheng Xu

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