Toward a scalable modular robotic system

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 56-63

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

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SCALABILITY;

DOCKED ROBOT; SELF-RECONFIGURATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 39849094916     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/M-RA.2007.908984     Document Type: Article

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