Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1490-1508

  Groß, Roderich ^a,b,c,d   Dorigo, Marco ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Formation; Growth; Macroscopic; Modular robotics; Self assembly; Self propelled; Self reconfiguration; Self repair; Self replication; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; GROWTH (MATERIALS); SELF ASSEMBLY; TAXONOMIES;

FORMATION; MACROSCOPIC; MODULAR ROBOTICS; SELF RECONFIGURATION; SELF REPAIR; SELF-PROPELLED; SELF-REPLICATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 51649129490     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.927352     Document Type: Article

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