The Conro modules for reconfigurable robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 403-409

  Castano, Andres ^a,b   Behar, Alberto ^b   Will, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Modular; Reconfigurable; Self sufficient

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CAMERAS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0036966168     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806233     Document Type: Article

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