M-TRAN: Self-reconfigurable modular robotic system

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 431-441

  Murata, Satoshi ^a   Yoshida, Eiichi ^b   Kamimura, Akiya ^b   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^b   Tomita, Kohji ^b   Kokaji, Shigeru ^b  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed autonomous control; Metamorphic robotics; Modular robot; Reconfiguration planning; Self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; USER INTERFACES;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0036969909     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806220     Document Type: Article

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