Emergent structures in modular self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1734-1741

  Bojinov, Hristo ^a   Casal, Arancha ^a   Hogg, Tad ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC ROBOT SYSTEMS; MODULAR SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0033705180     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844846     Document Type: Article

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