Robotic self-replication

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 34-43

  Lee, Kiju ^a   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed system; Modular robot; Robotic replication; Self replicating robot; Self reproduction

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULAR ROBOTS; SELF REPRODUCING AUTOMATA; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ROBOTIC REPLICATION; SELF-REPLICATING ROBOT; SELF-REPRODUCITON;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 39849098742     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/M-RA.2007.908962     Document Type: Article

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