SWARMORPH: Multirobot morphogenesis using directional self-assembly

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 738-743

  O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Christensen, Abders Lyhne ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Cellular and modular robots; Distributed robot systems; Morphology control; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AND MODULAR ROBOTS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOT SYSTEMS; EXTENSION RULE; GENERATION MECHANISM; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; MULTIROBOT; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; REPEATED APPLICATION; SELF ORGANIZED GROWTH; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SIMULATION-BASED;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; MODULAR ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 67649268429     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.2012341     Document Type: Article

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