A three-dimensional self-reconfigurable system

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 591-602

  Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^a   Murata, Satoshi ^a   Yoshida, Echi ^a   Tomita, Kohji ^a   Kokaji, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed autonomous system; Modular robot; Modular structure

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ARMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CUBIC LATTICE STRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; MODULAR STRUCTURE; SELF RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEM;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0033902117     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855399X01828     Document Type: Article

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