Distributed self-reconfiguration of M-TRAN III modular robotic system

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 373-386

  Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^a   Tomita, Kohji ^a   Kamimura, Akiya ^a   Kokaji, Shigeru ^a   Hasuo, Takashi ^b   Murata, Satoshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Controller area network; Decentralized control; Distributed autonomous system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; SCALABILITY;

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; PARALLEL ASYNCHRONOUS CONTROL; SYSTEM HOMOGENEITY;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 40049097571     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364907085560     Document Type: Article

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