Distributed control of the center of mass of a modular robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4710-4715

  Moll, Mark ^a   Will, Peter ^a   Krivokon, Maks ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CENTER OF MASS; MASS PROPERTIES;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34250635169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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