Runtime reconfiguration of a modular mobile robot with serial and parallel mechanisms

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2999-3004

  Zhang, H X ^a,b   Chen, S Y ^a,b,c   Wang, W ^d   Zhang, J W ^b,e   Zong, G H ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DOCKING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLEXIBLE DOCKING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PARALLEL MECHANISMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349165848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4398954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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