Design of the ATRON lattice-based self-reconfigurable robot

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-183

  Østergaard, Esben Hallundbæk ^a   Kassow, Kristian ^a   Beck, Richard ^a   Lund, Henrik Hautop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Design; Mechanics; Morphology; Robotics; Self reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

LATTICE-BASED SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33748502084     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-8546-1     Document Type: Article

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