Climbing Robots

For complex climbing robots, which work in difficult 3D outdoor environments, the gravity force has an important influence with respect the robots changes during its motion. This type of climbing robots is self-supported in the complex 3D structures (bridges, skeleton of the buildings, etc.) which require periodic, manually performed inspections and maintenance. The use of non-conventional climbing robots for this type of operation is highly appropriate. Their locomotion system commonly comprises arms/legs that permit the robot’s 3D mobility (gait). These mechanisms also enable the robot to support itself and guarantee its stability.

The RoboticsLab research in the field of climbing robots starts in 1995. Since this date several robots had been developed: a) Roma 1 was developed for inspection steel-based structures, like steel-beams based infrastructures like bridges, skeletons of the buildings, etc. Its grasping mechanism is able to securely grasp beams and columns, b) Roma 2 for travel along concrete, wood or plastic surfaces, by using a suction cups mechanism; its weight was substantially reduced by using several developed design criteria, and c) Mats robot allows moving in domestic interior environment.by using specially located docking stations. Being the robots? mobility different in some aspects, it was demonstrated that climbing in a complex 3D environment is possible with a high level of security.

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Entries:
Planning Robot Formations with Fast Marching Square Including Uncertainty Conditions
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. num. 2 , vol. 61 , pages: 137 – 152 , 2013
J.V. Gomez A. Lumbier S. Garrido L. Moreno
Adaptive evolving strategy for dextrous robotic manipulation.
Evolving Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12530-013-9085-6.. , pages: 1 – 8 , 2013
D. Alvarez C. A. Arismendi S. Garrido L. Moreno
High-Accuracy Global Localization Filter for Three-Dimensional Environments
Robotica, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263574711000701. num. 3 , vol. 30 , pages: 363 – 378 , 2012
F. Martín S. Garrido D. Blanco L. Moreno
Fm2: A Real-Time Sensor-Based Feedback Controller For Mobile Robots
International Journal of Robotics and Automation. num. 1 , vol. 24 , pages: 3169 – 3192 , 2009
S. Garrido D. Blanco M. Abderrahim L. Moreno
Symbolic Place Recognition in Voronoi-based maps by Using Hidden Markov Models
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. , vol. 39 , pages: 173 – 197 , 2004
L. Moreno D. Blanco
Nonholonomic Motion Planning Using the Fast Marching Square Method
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. num. 56 , vol. 12 , 2015
C. A. Arismendi D. Alvarez S. Garrido L. Moreno

Entries:
Precision Grasp Planning Based on Fast Marching Square.
IEEE/RSJ 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED) 2013., Platanias-Chani, Greece
J.V. Gomez D. Alvarez A. Lumbier S. Garrido L. Moreno
Fast Marching in motion planning for rhombic like vehicles operating in ITER
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
J.V. Gomez S. Garrido L. Moreno
Kinesthetic Teaching via Fast Marching Square
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), 2012, Vila Moura, Portugal
J.V. Gomez D. Alvarez S. Garrido L. Moreno
Accelerated Localization in Noisy 3D Environments usingDifferential Evolution
The 2010 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Las Vegas, USA
C. G.Uzcategui F. Martín D. Blanco L. Moreno
Optimum Robot Manipulator Path Generation using Differential Evolution
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC’09, Trondheim, Noruega
C. G.Uzcategui D. Blanco L. Moreno
Predesign of an Anthropomorphic Lightweight Manipulator
8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2005), 2005, London, U.K.
S. Kadhim D. Blanco L. Moreno
Voronoi Extraction of Free-way Areas in Cluttered Environments
2005 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), Edmonton, Canada
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Electroactive Polymer Actuator design for space applications
8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and AutomationASTRA 2004, 2004, ESTEC, Noordwik, Netherlands
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
Probability of success and uncertainty analysis in Path Planning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2003, 2003, Taipei, Taiwan
L. Moreno
A Genetic Solution for the SLAM Problems
11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2003 , 2003, Coimbra, Portugal
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Traversability analysis technics in outdoor environments: a comparative study.
11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2003, 2003, Coimbra, Portugal
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Traversable regions model for outdoor robots.
11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2003 , 2003, Coimbra, Portugal
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Lightweight robot design for mobile manipulators
International Conference on MECHATRONICSICOM 2003, 2003, Loughborough, U.K.
S. Kadhim D. Blanco L. Moreno
Topo-geometric modelling and localization in indoor environments
28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics SocietyIECON 2002, 2002, Seville, Spain
L. Moreno
Topographical analysis for Voronoi-based modelling
28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics SocietyIECON 2002, 2002, Seville, Spain
L. Moreno
Safe Local Path Planning for Human-Mobile Manipulator Cooperation
2nd IARP/IEEE-RAS Joint Workshop on Technical Challenge for Dependable Robots in Human Environments, 2002, Toulouse, France
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Localization and Modelling Approach Using Topogeometric Maps
Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and SystemsIROS 2002, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland
D. Blanco L. Moreno
Path planning with uncertainty
18th Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the futureCARS&FOF 2002, Oporto, Portugal
L. Moreno
Active human-mobile manipulator cooperation through intention recognition
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01), 2001, Seoul, Korea
D. Blanco M.A. Salichs
On-line Identification of Dynamic Systems with Restricted Genetic Optimization
4th IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control, 1997, Vilamoura, Portugal
L. Moreno M.A. Salichs
Teaching Robot Planners Using a Practical Approach
15th International Technology, Education and Development , 2021, Online,
A. Mora R. Sánchez R. Barber
Course Content for Learning GPU
13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilla, SPAIN
G. Camporredondo R. Barber L. Muñoz M. Legrand
Learning How Path Planning Algorithms Work
16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 2022, Online Conference,
A. Prados A. Mora R. Barber
Segmenting Maps by Analyzing Free and Occupied Regions with Voronoi Diagrams
International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO),, 2022, Lisboa, Portugal
A. Mora A. Prados R. Barber

Entries:
Fusion Technologies and the Contribution of TECHNOFUSIÓN
chapter: Performance Study of the FM2 Planning Method for Remote Handling Operations in ITER Sección de Publicaciones de la UC3M , ISBN: 978-84-695-6616, 2012
J.V. Gomez S. Garrido L. Moreno
Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control
chapter: Voronoi-based outdoor traversable region modelling pages: 201 – 250. Springer-Verlag , ISBN: 3-540-26892-8, 2005
D. Blanco L. Moreno

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