Development of Traveling Wave Type Omni-directional Wall Climbing Robot Using an Adhesion Device with Permanent Magnet

Abstract

We have developed the traveling wave type omni-directional mobile robot that imitates the snail locomotion mechanism. An advantage of this movement mechanism is that it enables stable motion because of a large contact area. We think that this stable motion is applicable to wall climbing. In this paper, we developed magnetic adhesion mechanism that can be switched adhesion and installed it in the robot. Furthermore, we confirmed the performance of this robot through experiments.