Slimebot: A modular robot that exploits emergent phenomena

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2982-2987

  Shimizu, Masahiro ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a   Kawakatsu, Toshihiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decentralized control algorithm; Emergent phenomena; Modular robot; Morphology control; Protoplasmic streaming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL ALGORITHMS; EMERGENT PHENOMENA; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; PROTOPLASMIC STREAMING;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 33846135079     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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