Million module march: Scalable locomotion for large self-reconfiguring robots

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 331-343

  Fitch, Robert ^a   Butler, Zack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular and modular robots; Distributed robot systems; Learning and adaptive systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MOTION PLANNING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

DECENTRALIZED IMPLEMENTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOT SYSTEMS; SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS; SUPERBOT SYSTEM;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 40049110598     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364907085097     Document Type: Article

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