Transformation of control in congruent self-reconfigurable robot topologies

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 612-618

  Everist, Jacob ^a   Hou, Feili ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSICAL RECONFIGURATION; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTICS; SINGLE ROBOT TOPOLOGY;

MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; TOPOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34250632761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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