Don't try to control everything!: An emergent morphology control of a modular robot

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 981-985

  Ishiguro, Akio ^a   Shimizu, Masahiro ^a   Kawakatsu, Toshihiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROMAGNETISM; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

LIGHT-DETECTING SENSORS; NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS; PHASE GRADIENTS; PROTOPLASMIC STREAMING;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 14044269539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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