Distributed, dynamic, and autonomous reconfiguration planning for chain-type self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3135-3140

  Hou, Feili ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MODULAR ROBOTS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

CHAIN-TYPE; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649125260     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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