Distributed planning and control for modular robots with unit-compressible modules

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 699-715

  Butler, Zack ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithms; Modular robots; Self reconfiguring robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS; UNIT-COMPRESSIBLE MODULES;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0141518099     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02783649030229002     Document Type: Article

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