Center-configuration selection technique for the reconfigurable modular robot

Science in China, Series F: Information Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 697-710

  Liu, Jinguo ^a,b   Wang, Yuechao ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Ma, Shugen ^a,c   Tan, Dalong ^a  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Center configuration; Center configuration coefficient; Configuration network; Modular robot; Reconfigurable robot; Reconfiguration cost matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648835234     PISSN: 10092757     EISSN: 18622836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-007-0068-8     Document Type: Article

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