Sensor-based distributed control for chain-typed self-reconfiguration

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 2074-2080

  Payne, Kenneth ^a   Salemi, Benham ^a   Will, Peter ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain type; Closed loop; CONRO; Digital hormone; Reconfiguration; Self reconfiguration; Sensing; SMA; Snake robot; Triped; Tripod

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BENCHMARKING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DOCKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS; SWITCHING;

CHAIN-TYPE; CLOSED LOOP; CONRO; DIGITAL HORMONE; RECONFIGURATION; SELF-RECONFIGURATION; SMA; SNAKE ROBOTS; TRIPED;

SENSORS;

EID: 14044262295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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