Towards an Efficient Self-organizing Reconfiguration Method for Self-reconfigurable Robots

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-425

  Xu, Wei ^a   Wang, Shi Gang ^a   Wang, An Lin ^a   Wang, Guo Bao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Descriptive model; Metamorphic rules; Modular robots; Self organizing; Self reconfigurable robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TARGETS; TOPOLOGY;

SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0242468045     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026198500589     Document Type: Article

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