Evolution of shape-changing and self-repairing control for the ATRON self-reconfigurable robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2539-2545

  Christensen, David Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MOTION CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTS; ROOFS;

ATRON ROBOTS; INTERCONNECTED MODULES; META-MODULE; SELF-REPAIRING CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845623360     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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