Crystalline robots: Self-reconfiguration with compressible unit modules

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-124

  Rus, Daniela ^a,b   Vona, Marsette ^a  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b Dartmouth Department of Computer Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

CRYSTALLINE MODULE CONCEPT; CRYSTALLINE ROBOTS; RECONFIGURATION PLANNING; SELF RECONFIGURATION ROBOTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0034825637     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026504804984     Document Type: Article

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