Hierarchical motion planning for self-reconfigurable modular robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 886-891

  Bhat, Preethi ^a   Kuffner, James ^a   Goldstein, Seth ^a   Srinivasa, Siddhartha ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCALABILITY;

HIERARCHICAL MOTION PLANNING; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34250643127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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