M-TRAN II: Metamorphosis from a Four-Legged Walker to a Caterpillar

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2454-2459

  Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^a   Kamimura, Akiya ^a   Yoshida, Eiichi ^a   Tomita, Kohji ^a   Kokaji, Shigeru ^a   Murata, Satoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

INTER-MODULE COMMUNICATION; RECONFIGURATION PROCESSES;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0347622693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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