Self-reconfigurable robots

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-78

  Murata, Satoshi ^a   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolutionary robotics; Modular robotics; Self assembly; Self reconfigurable robots; Self repair; Shape shifting

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

CELLULAR ROBOT; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; MUTUAL MECHANICAL CONNECTION; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SHAPE SHIFTING;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34147185766     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2007.339607     Document Type: Article

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