A decentralized control framework for modular robots

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1774-1779

  Lau, H Y K ^a   Ko, Albert ^a   Lau, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial Immune Systems; Distributed Control; Modular Robots; Multi agents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ACTUATION; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS (AIS); PASSIVE COMMUNICATION; PLANAR MANIPULATORS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 14044255917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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