José Carlos Romão — accepted AI-conference papers

2015

InchwormClimber: A light-weight biped climbing robot with a switchable magnet adhesion unit

José Carlos Romão, Mahmoud Tavakoli, Carlos Viegas, Pedro Neto, Aníbal T. de Almeida

IROS 2015poster

This article presents an inchworm climbing robot that is designed with switchable magnets and a single DOF arm. The InchwormClimber works on ferromagnetic structures and consumes little energy when climbing and can descend safely with almost zero energy consumption. Furthermore, considering the crit…

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2015

Switchable magnets for robotics applications

Mahmoud Tavakoli, Carlos Viegas, José Carlos Romão, Pedro Neto, Aníbal T. de Almeida

IROS 2015poster

The goal of this work is to study the application of switchable magnets (SM) for climbing robots. A switchable magnet is a device which uses moving permanent magnets to change the magnetic flux path and switch on or off the magnetic attraction force. In our work we used Comsol Multiphysics, a physic…

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