Toward magnetically-coupled reconfigurable modular robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2900-2905

  Patterson, Sean A ^a   Knowles Jr , Kenneth A ^a   Bishop, Bradley E ^a  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnet; Magnet; Module; Reconfigurable; Robot

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETS; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; ROBOTS; TRANSMITTERS;

LAYERED GEAR MODULE (LGM); MINIATURIZATION TECHNOLOGY; MODULE; RECONFIGURABLE;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 3042624971     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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