Distributed control for 3D metamorphosis

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-56

  Yim, Mark ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Lamping, John ^a   Mao, Eric ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

METAMORPHIC ROBOTS; METAMORPHOSIS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034831860     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026544419097     Document Type: Article

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