Distributed control for unit-compressible robots: Goal-recognition, locomotion, and splitting

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 418-430

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

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Metamorphic robots; Self reconfiguring robots

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0036968533     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806230     Document Type: Article

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