Docking experiments of a modular robot by visual feedback

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 625-630

  Murata, Satoshi ^a   Kakomura, Kiyoharu ^a   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

M TRAN; Modular robot; Scalability; Self reconfiguration; Visual feedback

Indexed keywords

DOCKING; POSITION CONTROL; SCALABILITY; VISUAL SERVOING;

SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34250644321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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