The Problem of Adhesion Methods and Locomotion Mechanism Development for Wall-Climbing Robots
It addresses the challenge of enabling robots to climb vertical surfaces, which is incremental as it synthesizes existing research without introducing new methods.
This review tackles the problem of developing adhesion methods and locomotion mechanisms for wall-climbing robots by analyzing the evolution of various techniques, such as friction and magnetic forces, and classifying them based on applications, mobility, and energy efficiency.
This review considers a problem in the development of mobile robot adhesion methods with vertical surfaces and the appropriate locomotion mechanism design. The evolution of adhesion methods for wall-climbing robots (based on friction, magnetic forces, air pressure, electrostatic adhesion, molecular forces, rheological properties of fluids and their combinations) and their locomotion principles (wheeled, tracked, walking, sliding framed and hybrid) is studied. Wall-climbing robots are classified according to the applications, adhesion methods and locomotion mechanisms. The advantages and disadvantages of various adhesion methods and locomotion mechanisms are analyzed in terms of mobility, noiselessness, autonomy and energy efficiency. Focus is placed on the physical and technical aspects of the adhesion methods and the possibility of combining adhesion and locomotion methods.