Self-organizing collective robots with morphogenesis in a vertical plane

JSME International Journal, Series C: Dynamics, Control, Robotics, Design and Manufacturing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 195-202

  Hosokawa, Kazuo ^a   Fujii, Teruo ^a   Kaetsu, Hayato ^a   Asama, Hajime ^a   Kuroda, Yoji ^b   Endo, Isao ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellular Automata; Collective Robots; Mobile Robot; Self Assembly; Self Organization; Self Reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; MECHANISMS; MOTION CONTROL; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COLLECTIVE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0040962820     PISSN: 13408062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmec.42.195     Document Type: Article

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