A development of a modular robot that enables adaptive reconfiguration

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 174-179

  Shimizu, Masahiro ^a   Mori, Takafumi ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decentralized control algorithm; Emergent phenomena; Modular robot; Morphology control; Spontaneous connectivity control mechanism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGY; REAL TIME CONTROL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL ALGORITHM; EMERGENT PHENOMENA; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; SPONTANEOUS CONNECTIVITY CONTROL MECHANISM;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 34250683020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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