Most of the robots reported in the literature are designed to climb on manmade structures, but seldom robots are designed for climbing natural environment such as trees. It provides a valuable reference for robot designers to select appropriate climbing methods in designing tree-climbing robots for specific purposes.
Introduction.- State-of-the-Art Tree-climbing Robots.- Methodology of Tree Climbing.- A Novel Tree-climbing Robot: Treebot.- Optimization of the Fastening Force.- Kinematics and Workspace Analysis.- Autonomous Climbing.- Global Path and Motion Planning.- Conclusions and Future Work.