Self-reconfigurable robots: Platforms for emerging functionality

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3139, Issue , 2004, Pages 312-330

  Murata, Satoshi ^a,b   Kamimura, Akiya ^b   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^b   Yoshida, Eiichi ^b   Tomita, Kohji ^b   Kokaji, Shigeru ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

GRID SYSTEMS; NETWORK TRANSFER; ROBOT MOTION; ROBOTIC MODULES; HARDWARE DESIGN; MODULAR SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; MODULAR TRANSFORMER; MOTION GENERATION; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SELF RECONFIGURATION;

ROBOTICS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 23144439350     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27833-7_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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