Choosing good paths for fast distributed reconfiguration of hexagonal metamorphic robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 102-109

  Walter, Jennifer E ^a   Tsai, Elizabeth M ^b   Amato, Nancy M ^c  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Swai thinore College   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURATION; METAMORPHIC ROBOTS; SUBSTRATE PATH; TRAVERSAL WEIGHTING ALGORITHM;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0036057629     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1013346     Document Type: Article

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