Using role-based control to produce locomotion in chain-type self-reconfigurable robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 410-417

  Støy, Kasper ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^b   Will, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Locomotion; Self reconfigurable robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ROBOTS;

CONTROLLING LOCOMOTION;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 14044259683     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806223     Document Type: Article

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