Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot (M-TRAN) and its Motion Design

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 51-56

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

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

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ACCELERATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

INTERMODULE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOTION DESIGN; MULTICOMPUTER SYSTEMS; SELF RECONFIGURABLE CAPABILITY; INTER-MODULE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOTOR CONTROL; MULTI-COMPUTERS;

ROBOTICS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 2342564456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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