Quadruped Robots Can Climb Ladders!

In an abstract presented at the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), researchers, Azhar Aulia Saputra, Wei Hong Chin, Yuichiro Toda, Naoyuki Takesue, and Naoyuki Kubota presented a quadruped robot, featuring DYNAMIXEL servo motors, moving through a vertical ladder without handrail supports. 

You can find the article written here.

Reference Papers

A Novel Capabilities of Quadruped Robot Moving through Vertical Ladder without Handrail Support

Azhar Aulia Saputra, Yuichiro Toda, Naoyuki Takesue, and Naoyuki Kubota. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 1448-1453. Macau, China, November 4-8, 2019

Dynamic Density Topological Structure Generation for Real-Time Ladder Affordance Detection

Azhar Aulia Saputra, Wei Hong Chin, Yuichiro Toda, Naoyuki Takesue, and Naoyuki Kubota. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Macau, China, November 4-8, 2019

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