Experiments in distributed locomotion with a unit-compressible modular robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2813-2818

  Butler, Zack ^a   Fitch, Robert ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CRYSTAL ROBOT; DISTRIBUTED GOAL RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED LOCOMOTION; GENERIC DIVISION ALGORITHM; UNIT COMPRESSIBLE ACTUATION; UNIT COMPRESSIBLE MODULAR ROBOT;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0036450811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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