Self-replicating robots for lunar development

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 462-472

  Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a,b   Zhou, Yu ^a   Suthakorn, Jackrit ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Degenerate diffusion; Lunar resources; Moon; Proliferation; Robot; Rotation group; Self replication

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOON; ROBOTICS;

SELF-REPLICATING ROBOTS (SRR);

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036977975     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806232     Document Type: Article

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