Docking among independent and autonomous CONRO self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2877-2882

  Rubenstein, Michael ^a   Payne, Kenneth ^a   Will, Peter ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous docking; Compliant docking; Remote sensor alignement; Self reconfigurable robots

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; DOCKING; GRIPPERS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTORS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS DOCKING; COMPLIANT DOCKING; RAZOR BLADES; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042532306     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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