A fully decentralized control of an amoeboid robot by exploiting the law of conservation of protoplasmic mass

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1144-1149

  Umedachi, Takuya ^a   Kitamura, Taichi ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHATRONICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MECHANICAL SYSTEM; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 51649094662     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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