How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3533-3538

  Miyashita, Shuhei ^a   Kessler, Marco ^a   Lungarella, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; ASSEMBLY; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MODULAR ROBOTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PLASTICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

SELF- ASSEMBLIES; YIELD RATES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 51649114025     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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