Using cellular automata and gradients to control self-reconfiguration

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-141

  Stoy, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Self reconfigurable robots

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

CELLULAR ARRAYS; COMPUTER AIDED LOGIC DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 30944454655     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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