Connecting and disconnecting for chain self-reconfiguration with polybot

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 442-451

  Yim, Mark ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Roufas, Kimon ^a   Duff, David ^a   Eldershaw, Craig ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain; PolyBot; Reconfigurable; Robot

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DOCKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ROBOTS;

SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0036971601     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806221     Document Type: Article

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