Stochastic self-reconfigurable cellular robotics

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2888-2893

  White, P J ^a   Kopanski, K ^a   Lipson, H ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Modular self reconfigurable robotics; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRAPH THEORY; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BONDING RATE; MODULAR SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTICS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042529882     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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