Scalable locomotion for large self-reconfiguring robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2248-2253

  Fitch, Robert ^a   Butler, Zack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

SELF RECONFIGURING ROBOTS; SUBLINEAR ALGORITHMS; SUBLINEAR TIME;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 36349010172     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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