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Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, p. 6-15

DOI: 10.1007/11008941_2

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Toward Autonomous Free-Climbing Robots

Proceedings article published in 2005 by Tim Bretl, Jean-Claude Latombe, Stephen M. Rock
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Abstract

The goal of this research is to enable a multi-limbed robot to climb vertical rock using techniques similar to those developed by human climbers. The robot consists of a small number of articulated limbs. Only the limb end-points can make contact with the environment---a vertical surface with small, arbitrarily distributed features called holds. A path through this environment is a sequence of one-step climbing moves in which the robot brings a limb end-point to a new hold.