Active self-assembly

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 896-901

  Arbuckle, Daniel ^a   Requicha, Aristides A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly from primitive shapes; Distributed robotics; Intelligent self assembly; Nanofabrication; Nanorobotics; Partially specified structures; Reconfigurable robotics; Sacrificial structures; State space reduction; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING;

ASSEMBLY FROM PRIMITIVE SHAPES; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; INTELLIGENT SELF-ASSEMBLY; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTICS; SACRIFICIAL STRUCTURES; SWARM ROBOTICS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 3042623828     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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