Climbing Robots for Commercial Applications - a survey

Abstract

In this paper a short survey on the research of climbing machine is given with a strong focus on industrial applications. Based on a classification of different types of climbing machines examples of robots are presented, which are prototypically developed for industrial and commercial use. Considering the application environment the system requirements of climbing machines will be presented. At the end of the paper a climbing machine used for the inspection of concrete bridges is presented as an example with a huge commercial potential. 1.