Research on mechanism design and motion planning of a modular self-reconfigurable robot

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 4821-4825

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Zhao, Jie ^a   Cai, Hegao ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Configuration; Modular; Motion planning; Self reconfigurable; Substructure

Indexed keywords

MODULAR; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE; SUBSTRUCTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 4444363363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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