A unified simulator for self-reconfigurable robots

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 870-876

  Christensen, David ^a   Brandt, David ^a   Stoy, Kasper ^a   Schultz, Ulrik Pagh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC INTERACTION; GENERIC SIMULATION; MOBILE ROBOTIC; PHYSICS ENGINE; PLAYER/STAGE; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SELF RECONFIGURATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; SIMULATORS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 69549114550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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