SIX-LEGGED CLIMBING ROBOT WITH SUCKERS FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

Maintenance and inspection of old buildings, bridges, tunnels, and so on are important tasks of robots. In our previous works, for such tasks, we developed a multi-legged robot that climbs an unknown vertical wall by using suckers. In this report, we improved our previous robot and developed a flexible leg with a sucker to climb a wall. As a result, we confirmed that the developed robot can climb autonomously by utilizing the passive mechanisms