Design of prismatic cube modules for convex corner traversal in 3D

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1490-1495

  Weller, Michael Philetus ^a   Kirby, Brian T ^a   Brown, H Benjamin ^b   Gross, Mark D ^a   Goldstein, Seth Copen ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D LATTICES; CONVEX CORNERS; CUBIC LATTICE; HARDWARE MODULES; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE;

GEOMETRY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 76249087925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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