A robotically reconfigurable truss

Proceedings of the 2009 ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, ReMAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-78

  Hjelle, David ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a,b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Reconfigurable robotics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; METABOLIC PROCESS; PHYSICAL REALIZATION; RANDOM ACCESS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTICS; RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE; RECONFIGURATION ALGORITHM; SPACE EXPLORATIONS; TRUSS STRUCTURE;

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPACE RESEARCH; TRUSSES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70449119693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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