Abstract
The traveling wave type omni-directional mobile robot 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 for moving on ferromagnetic surface and also the traveling wave type omni-directional wall climbing robot using developed magnetic adhesion mechanism. Furthermore, we confirmed the performance of this robot through experiments.
