Self-assembly through the interplay between control and mechanical systems

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 631-638

  Ishiguro, Akio ^a   Maegawa, Tomoki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emergence; Fully decentralized control; Modular robot; Self assembly; Self repair

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; FULLY DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 34250676080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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