Generic distributed assembly and repair algorithms for self-reconfiguring robots

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2362-2369

  Kotay, Keith ^a,b   Rus, Daniela ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REPAIR; ROBOTS;

ABSTRACT MODELS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; REPAIR ALGORITHMS; SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 14044271556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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