Modular robot motion planning using similarity metrics

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 91-106

  Chiang, Chih Jung ^a   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PLANNING; PATTERN MATCHING; ROBOTICS;

MORPHING; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SIMILARITY METRICS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0034831250     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026552720914     Document Type: Article

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