Highly compliant and self-tightening docking modules for precise and fast connection of self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2311-2316

  Khoshnevis, Behrokh ^b   Will, Peter ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOCKING; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

COMPLIANT AND SELF-TIGHTENING SYSTEMS; METAMORPHIC ROBOTS; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0344877214     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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