Distributed self-reconfiguration control of modular robot M-TRAN

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 254-259

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

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

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed autonomous system; Self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MODULAR ROBOTS;

DECANTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED SELF-RECONFIGURABLE CONTROL; M-TRAN - MODULAR ROBOT;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744561745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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