摘要 |
A robot having three or more pairs of legs can be walked along the surface of a space vehicle in zero gravity using a pair-wise gait of the robot's feet by which a clean-lifting adhesive fixes each foot of the robot to the space vehicle's surface by a pre-load force that is less than the adhesive's pull-off force. The gait method is to opposing legs of the robot simultaneously, one pair at a time. The legs are moved and then lowered back to the vehicle's surface and forced against the vehicle surface by a pre-load force. The adhesive provides a pull-off force greater than the preload force.
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